Swan Lane First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–10 · Evesham, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.716 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Swan Lane First School is a primary school in Evesham, Worcestershire for ages 4–10 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 March 2023. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Swan Lane 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 | 1.716 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.716 miles from the school, the 28th shortest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2021, and every applicant was offered a place in 5 of the 7 years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 31 first-choice applications for 31 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 22.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.5% 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
- Rynal Street, Evesham, WR11 4QA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–10
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 293 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy taking part in a broad range of activities at Swan Lane First School.”
- “Some take up leadership roles as ecowarriors or digital leaders.”
- “Pupils are fully involved and take an active part in making decisions about the school.”
To improve
- “Pupils enjoy reading many books, but sometimes the range of texts they encounter is narrow.”
- “However, there is some variation in teachers’ expertise.”
- “Sometimes, the tasks that teachers set do not help pupils build their knowledge as well as they might.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 31 first-preference applications, 31 offers in total, 31 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 Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bengeworth CE Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Richard's CofE First School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE School and Nursery 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Offenham Church of England First School 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Badsey First School 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cropthorne-with-Charlton CofE First School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Littletons Church of England Academy 2.8 mi Not judged Last distance published