Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–9 · Redditch, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.869 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School is a primary school in Redditch, Worcestershire for ages 4–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 February 2023. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic 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 | 0.869 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
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.869 miles away: 9th shortest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included).
- The 2026 distance was further from the school than in 2022, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 64 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 8.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 21% 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
- Downsell Road, Webheath, Redditch, B97 5RR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–9
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 297 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 February 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders provide a caring and welcoming community.”
- “Pupils enjoy the wide range of activities that are on offer.”
- “They feel happy and safe at school because staff look after them well.”
To improve
- “There are a few subjects where there is more work to be done to maximise learning.”
- “However, subject leaders are still developing approaches to teaching and assessment in some foundation subjects.”
- “As a result, checks on what learning pupils have retained are not as precise in these subjects as in other areas of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 64 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 59 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.
- Webheath Academy Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Batchley First and Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Vaynor First School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE First School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holyoakes Field First School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Crabbs Cross Academy 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St George's CofE First School and Nursery 1.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Oak Hill First School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published