St Philip's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Smethwick, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Philip's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Smethwick, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next, from the inspection on 9 May 2024. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Philip's Catholic 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, with 13 first-choice applications for 15 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 9th lowest of 86 Sandwell primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 50% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result, 50%, was 2nd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sandwell schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Messenger Road, Smethwick, B66 3DU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 29.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Inspected 9 May 2024
Strengths
- “Staff work effectively to provide new and exciting opportunities for pupils to demonstrate their talents and interests.”
- “Pupils appreciate the care they receive and know that, when required, staff will be there to support them.”
- “Pupils enjoy being given the chance to express their opinions, and show a willingness to share what they enjoy and would like to improve at their school.”
To improve
- “However, the school has faced some challenges in recent times, including significant staffing changes.”
- “This has had an impact on the capacity of staff to deliver and monitor the impact of the mathematics curriculum.”
- “Despite some significant changes to the curriculum, the school is not yet seeing consistent improvements in what all pupils know and can do in mathematics.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 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) | 50% | 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: 13 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 13 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 Sandwell.
- St Matthew's CofE Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Victoria Park Primary 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Cape Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Galton Valley Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Crocketts Community Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shireland Hall Primary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shireland Technology Primary 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Devonshire Infant Academy 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published