Beech Green Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

Every applicant was offered a place

From Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Beech Green Primary School is a primary school in Gloucester, Gloucestershire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 16 July 2024. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.

Beech Green 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
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 7 earlier figures.

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in all 9 earlier Reception years with a published outcome.
The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years, the biggest move being from 2019 to 2020.
Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
In 2024/25, 59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: St James, Quedgeley, Gloucester, GL2 4WD
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–11
Council: Gloucestershire
Pupils on roll: 320 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 16.3% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.4

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Requires improvement Inspected 16 July 2024

Strengths

“The school’s values, ‘believe, achieve and respect’, encourage pupils to work hard and acknowledge the opinions of others.”
“For example, the Beech Green Values Award was recently presented to Year 6 for their promotion of increased diversity in reading books.”
“Pupils are polite and respectful.”

To improve

“However, the quality of learning activities varies between subjects and year groups.”
“Pupils are not able to secure curriculum knowledge sufficiently well in all subjects.”
“The school’s knowledge and understanding of its strengths and weaknesses is developing.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 September 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)	59%	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: 28 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 28 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 Gloucestershire.

Field Court Church of England Infant Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
Field Court Junior School 0.3 mi Not judged
Meadowside Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
Clearwater Church of England Primary Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Kingsway Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Harewood Infant School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Harewood Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good
Hardwicke Parochial Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published