Matchborough First School Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–9 · Redditch, 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 🔒
Matchborough First School Academy is a primary school in Redditch, Worcestershire for ages 3–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 March 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Matchborough First School Academy 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
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 47 first-choice applications for 50 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The published admission number for Reception 2027 is 60 places.
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
- Matchborough Way, Matchborough East, Redditch, B98 0GD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 335 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Matchborough First School Academy are flourishing.”
- “Staff greet pupils with a smile each morning.”
- “Pupils enjoy celebrating their talents and achievements.”
To improve
- “However, at times the work pupils are given does not always focus on the key knowledge they will need for future learning.”
- “When this happens, pupils are sometimes not clear about what they have learned.”
- “At times, some pupils need extra help to manage their behaviour.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 April 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 47 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 47 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.
- Tenacres First School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Arrow Valley First School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic First School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Woodrow First School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Moons Moat First School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oak Hill First School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St George's CofE First School and Nursery 1.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Abbeywood First School 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published