Rood End Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Oldbury, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rood End Primary School is a primary school in Oldbury, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 19 November 2024. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Rood End 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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 every Reception applicant was offered a place, as at 63 of the 86 other Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 39 first-choice applications for 42 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 50% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 20.7 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.1 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
- Rood End Road, Oldbury, B68 8SQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 428 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 19 November 2024
Strengths
- “Rood End Primary School welcomes everyone.”
- “Pupils enjoy their learning and attend regularly.”
- “Adults forge warm working relationships with pupils.”
To improve
- “However, pupils do not make as much progress through the curriculum that they should.”
- “Sometimes opportunities for pupils to think deeply are not effective.”
- “Pupils do not remember some knowledge securely.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 December 2024 (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) | 50% | 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: 39 first-preference applications, 42 offers in total, 39 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.
- George Betts Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Langley Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Devonshire Infant Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Devonshire Junior Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Moat Farm Infant School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moat Farm Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade