Lickey End First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–9 · Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.101 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lickey End First School is a primary school in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for ages 2–9 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 January 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Lickey End 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 | 1.101 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.101 miles away, further from the school than in 2025 and in 2020.
- That was the 12th shortest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included), where the middle figure was 2.17 miles.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years from 2020 to 2026.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 35 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 26 offers went to first-choice families, so 9 first-choice families (26%) were not offered a place.
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
- School Lane, Lickey End, Bromsgrove, B60 1JG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 147 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 January 2024
Strengths
- “This school has high expectations for pupils’ achievement, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “Since the last inspection, leaders have taken effective action to improve the curriculum.”
- “In addition, the school has high expectations for pupils’ behaviour, including those who need support to manage their behaviour.”
To improve
- “The leadership role in some subjects is at an early stage of development.”
- “However, the checks that the school makes on how well pupils are learning the curriculum are not sufficiently robust.”
- “This means that, in some subjects, leaders are not always clear about how well pupils are learning the intended curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 35 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 26 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 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Catshill First School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blackwell First School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Finstall First School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Orchards School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Lickey Hills Primary School and Nursery 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic First School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Millfields First School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published