Blakedown CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–11 · Kidderminster, 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 🔒
Blakedown CofE Primary School is a primary school in Kidderminster, Worcestershire for ages 5–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 16 October 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Blakedown CofE Primary 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
- 6.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 22.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire.
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception 2026, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026, there were 23 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 58% met the expected standard (England 62%), lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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, Blakedown, Kidderminster, DY10 3JN
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 194 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 16 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils understand the school’s values of respect, peace, forgiveness, trust and perseverance.”
- “They know why these values are important, both in school and for later life.”
- “For example, pupils said that to persevere means to keep trying when they find work difficult.”
To improve
- “However, on occasion, while some pupils need to revisit previous learning before moving on to something new, others do not and they are not provided with further challenge to develop their learning further.”
- “This means that some pupils complete work that they already know and understand.”
- “This limits the time available for them to deepen or apply their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 58% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 23 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 23 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.
- Hagley Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Offmore Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Oswald's CofE Primary School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Belbroughton CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Comberton Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cookley Sebright Primary School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Clent Parochial Primary School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Ambrose Catholic Primary 2.9 mi Good Last distance published