Landywood Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Walsall, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

1.419 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Landywood Primary School is a primary school in Walsall, Staffordshire for ages 2–11 (community school). Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.

Landywood 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	1.419 mi
Reception 2025	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2024	🔒 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 1.419 miles away, the 25th longest of 58 Staffordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
Year to year the Reception last distance stayed close, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
For Reception 2026 there were 64 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families and 6 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Holly Lane, Landywood, Great Wyrley, Walsall, WS6 6AQ
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–11
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 408 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 9.3% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

No Ofsted grade Inspected 6 May 2026

Strengths

“This is a happy and harmonious school.”
“Pupils enjoy school life and know that staff expect them to work hard.”
“Most pupils achieve well and are ready for the next stage in their education.”

To improve

“Leaders have identified that the teaching of letter formation and handwriting requires some improvements.”
“Some teaching does not make effective-enough use of the information from these checks to decide what to teach pupils and when.”
“Occasionally, some teaching does not make full use of staff expertise.”

Safeguarding: met

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 2026 (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)	62%	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: 64 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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 Staffordshire.

Glenthorne Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
Moat Hall Primary Academy 1.0 mi Not judged
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Cheslyn Hay Primary Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
St John's Primary Academy 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
Bridgtown Primary School 2.0 mi Standards maintained
Jerome Primary School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Mary's Catholic Primary School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published