Crown Meadow First School & Nursery
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–9 · Birmingham, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Crown Meadow First School & Nursery is a primary school in Birmingham, Worcestershire for ages 2–9 (community school). Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Crown Meadow First School & Nursery 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 |
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, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out, with a last distance published, in 3 of the 6 earlier years.
- Reception 2026 had 50 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 7.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 9.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Worcestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Birmingham Road, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7TA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 337 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 24 February 2026
Strengths
- “There is a sense of community at Crown Meadow that is felt from the moment the school day begins.”
- “Pupils are happy to come to school and they like their teachers.”
- “They get on well with one another and say it is easy to make friends.”
To improve
- “Although pupils' results in external tests are typically in line with national averages, pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
- “In the early years, children do not make the progress they should in key areas, including communication and language.”
- “Across the school, pupils have gaps in their writing knowledge.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 April 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 50 first-preference applications, 58 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 Worcestershire.
- St Andrew's CofE First School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Blackwell First School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lickey Hills Primary School and Nursery 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Tardebigge CofE First School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Stephen's CofE First School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Holyoakes Field First School 3.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Batchley First and Nursery School 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lickey End First School 3.5 mi Good Last distance published