St Richard's CofE First School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–10 · Evesham, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.984 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Richard's CofE First School is a primary school in Evesham, Worcestershire for ages 4–10 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 July 2023. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
St Richard's CofE 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 | 2.984 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
- For Reception entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.984 miles away, the 34th longest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.17 miles).
- For Reception 2026 there were 38 first-choice applications for 40 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
- 25.9% 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
- Four Pools Lane, Evesham, WR11 1DU
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–10
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 282 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy their learning at St Richard’s C of E First School, especially when different subjects link together.”
- “Visitors and trips out of school help pupils to put their learning in context.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for pupils.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, leaders have not specified precisely enough the key knowledge that all pupils need.”
- “On occasion, teachers do not use classroom activities that ensure that all pupils learn what they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 38 first-preference applications, 40 offers in total, 38 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.
- Bengeworth CE Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Swan Lane First School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE School and Nursery 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Badsey First School 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Offenham Church of England First School 2.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sedgeberrow CofE First School 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cropthorne-with-Charlton CofE First School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published