Finstall First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–9 · Bromsgrove, 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 🔒
Finstall First School is a primary school in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for ages 5–9 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 3 June 2025. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Finstall First 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place; places ran out in all 6 earlier years, when the last distance offered swung sharply, most of all from 2023 to 2024.
- For Reception 2026 there were 48 first-choice applications for 55 offers, 0.9 per offer, the 23rd lowest of 174 Worcestershire primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Of the 296 pupils on roll in January 2026, 2% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire is 16.7%.
- The latest Ofsted outcome, on 3 June 2025, was Not judged; the previous graded outcome, in April 2015, was Outstanding.
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
- Carnforth Road, Bromsgrove, B60 2HS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 296 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 3 June 2025
Strengths
- “Finstall is a welcoming school and has high ambition for its pupils.”
- “This high ambition is realised for most pupils.”
- “Most pupils achieve high standards in reading, writing and mathematics.”
To improve
- “However, expectations are inconsistent and lack a coherent structure.”
- “This has led to inconsistencies in the way that letter formation and handwriting are taught.”
- “Many pupils do not form letters correctly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 July 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 48 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 48 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.
- Meadows First School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Charford First School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic First School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Millfields First School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- The Orchards School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Lickey End First School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Tardebigge CofE First School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Blackwell First School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published