Ferndale Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Birmingham, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.387 miles
Published by Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ferndale Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 29 June 2022. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ferndale Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 4.387 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 4.387 miles away, the longest of 22 Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (the middle figure was 0.55 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 50 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 10 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 14% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 25.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sandwell schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Ferndale Avenue, Great Barr, Birmingham, B43 5QF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 551 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 29 June 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be part of this inclusive school.”
- “Leaders support them to live out the school values of ‘belong, believe and achieve'.”
- “Each morning, staff greet pupils warmly, helping them to feel ready for their day.”
To improve
- “At times, this is not as precise for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.”
- “However, as children move through the early years, some learning activities do not enable children to build on what they already know and can do.”
- “This means that some pupils are not as well prepared for Year 1 as they could be.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 66% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 50 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 50 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Sandwell.
- Hamstead Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Name Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grove Vale Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Whitecrest Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Margaret's CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Yew Tree Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pennyhill Primary School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eaton Valley Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published