Dordon Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Tamworth, Warwickshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.481 miles
Published by Warwickshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dordon Primary School is a primary school in Tamworth, Warwickshire for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 February 2024. Warwickshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2026 entry.
Dordon 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 | 1.481 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 |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
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 1.481 miles away, the 58th shortest of 176 Warwickshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.26 miles).
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 4 of the 9 years with a published outcome; the Reception 2026 last distance was about the same as in 2025.
- Reception 2026 saw 14 first-choice applications for 23 offers, 0.6 first choices per offer, the 8th lowest of 170 Warwickshire primary schools; 9 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 48% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Warwickshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warwickshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Roman Way, Dordon, Tamworth, B78 1PJ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Warwickshire
- Pupils on roll
- 208 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils attend Dordon Primary School happily.”
- “They enjoy all the school has to offer.”
- “The single-word rule of ‘respect’ is understood well by pupils and underpins everything the school does.”
To improve
- “The school has rightly identified gaps that still remain in pupils’ knowledge in some subjects.”
- “However, some pupils do not attend school often enough.”
- “This leads to gaps in their learning and means they are not achieving as well as they might.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 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) | 48% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 23 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 Warwickshire.
- Birchwood Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Nethersole CofE Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Woodside CofE Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Wood End Primary School 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Warton Nethersole's CofE Primary School 2.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hurley Primary School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Racemeadow Primary Academy 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Outwoods Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
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