Woodlands Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Solihull
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.96 miles
Published by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Woodlands Infant School is a primary school in Solihull for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 September 2022. Solihull has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Woodlands Infant 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 | 2.96 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 the last Reception place went to a child living 2.96 miles away, the 2nd longest of 19 Solihull primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Every applicant was offered a place in 5 of the 9 years with a published Reception outcome, and the 2026 last distance was further from the school than in 2018.
- Reception 2026 drew 40 first-choice applications for 60 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer and the lowest of 51 Solihull primary schools.
- 39 of the Reception 2026 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (3%) was not offered a place; 21 went to families ranking it second or lower.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Solihull schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Woodlands Lane, Shirley, Solihull, B90 2PX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Solihull
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 September 2022
Strengths
- “Woodlands Infant School is a very happy place.”
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, thrive in this harmonious community.”
- “Leaders place the well-being of pupils, staff and parents at the heart of their work.”
To improve
- “Where this is not yet the case, the early years leader is working in collaboration with subject leaders to ensure smooth transition from early years to key stage 1, in order to deepen pupils’ knowledge and skills over time.”
- “However, recruiting new governors has been challenging, resulting in a number of vacancies on the governing body.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 40 first-preference applications, 60 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 Solihull.
- Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shirley Heath Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- Burman Infant School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St James 0.6 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Dickens Heath Community Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Cranmore Infant School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Haslucks Green School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade