Dodford First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–9 · 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 🔒
Dodford First School is a primary school in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for ages 3–9 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 May 2023. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Dodford 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out in 2 of the 6 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 saw 7 first-choice applications for 12 offers, 0.6 first choices per offer, the lowest of 174 Worcestershire primary schools; 5 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Of its pupils, 3.1% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 18.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire.
- There are 16.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.9 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
- Fockbury Road, Dodford, Bromsgrove, B61 9AW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 65 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils very much enjoy their learning at Dodford First School.”
- “This helps staff to care for them and to make sure they learn well.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for pupils’ behaviour.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, there is some uncertainty about how best to teach mixed-age classes when the new curriculum enters its second year.”
- “They are keen to improve it further and would value more training on how to do so.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 7 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 7 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.
- The Orchards School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Millfields First School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Meadows First School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic First School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Catshill First School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Fairfield First School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lickey End First School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Charford First School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published