Overbury CofE First School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–10 · Tewkesbury, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.37 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Overbury CofE First School is a primary school in Tewkesbury, Worcestershire for ages 5–10 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 4 January 2023. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Overbury 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 | 2.37 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 2.37 miles from the school, the 39th longest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published last distance; it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 18 first-choice applications for 15 offers; 14 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families (22%) were not offered a place.
- 12 of the 38 applications (32%) for Reception 2026 came from families living outside Worcestershire, and 3 offers went to them.
- 2.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 8% 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
- School Lane, Overbury, Tewkesbury, GL20 7NT
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–10
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 81 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 4 January 2023
Strengths
- “Overbury CofE First School is a warm, welcoming and happy place.”
- “The headteacher and staff know every pupil well.”
- “For example, when it is a child’s birthday, staff fly the flag outside school.”
To improve
- “However, in a few foundation subjects, the knowledge and skills that pupils are expected to learn are not as well defined.”
- “This means that teachers are unsure about what pupils need to know and remember in these subjects.”
- “Pupils do not achieve as well as they could in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 February 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 18 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 14 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.
- Bredon Hancock's Endowed CofE First School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ashton-under-Hill First School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Elmley Castle CofE First School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eckington CofE First School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sedgeberrow CofE First School 4.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Defford and Besford CofE Primary School 4.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Abbey Park Primary School 5.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Cropthorne-with-Charlton CofE First School 5.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published