Beechwood Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Dudley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.49 miles
Published by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Beechwood Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Dudley for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 July 2024. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Beechwood Church of England 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 | 2.49 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.49 miles away, the 6th longest of 39 Dudley primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 28 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 53% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Dudley.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Dudley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Beechwood Road, Dudley, DY2 7QA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 214 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 July 2024
Strengths
- “There is a real togetherness that runs through this school.”
- “The school’s vision and values of trust, justice, friendship, forgiveness, endurance and compassion underpin much of the work that takes place.”
- “Staff have an unwavering commitment to ensure that all pupils, regardless of their background, succeed both socially and academically.”
To improve
- “Outcomes at the end of key stage 2 are low but are improving.”
- “However, in a few areas of the wider curriculum, there is still work to do to clearly define the key knowledge pupils need to remember and how teachers check that this is secure.”
- “Both recognise the need to provide further support to help staff develop their subject-teaching knowledge across all areas of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 September 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) | 53% | 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: 26 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 26 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 Dudley.
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kates Hill Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blowers Green Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Sledmere Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Priory Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Jesson's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Foxyards Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Northfield Road Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published