Abbeywood First School
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 🔒
Abbeywood First School is a primary school in Redditch, Worcestershire for ages 3–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 12 February 2025. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Abbeywood 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 | 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 applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 34 first-choice applications for 34 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the admission number for Reception 2027 is 60 places.
- At 26.7%, the share of pupils eligible for free school meals is above the middle figure of 22.8% 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
- Wood Piece Lane, Church Hill, Redditch, B98 9LR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 255 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 12 February 2025
Strengths
- “Abbeywood First School is ambitious for its pupils.”
- “The school’s work to improve pupils’ attendance rates is tenacious.”
- “Typically, pupils attend school regularly and on time.”
To improve
- “However, this information is not used consistently well to plan the next steps or identify gaps in knowledge in some aspects of the curriculum.”
- “At times, staff’s checks on how well pupils learn in lessons lack precision.”
- “Errors sometimes go unchecked, or pupils are not supported to move on and deepen their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 34 offers in total, 34 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.
- Moons Moat First School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Beoley First School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Arrow Valley First School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Tenacres First School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Stephen's CofE First School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St George's CofE First School and Nursery 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Matchborough First School Academy 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Oak Hill First School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published