Damson Wood Nursery and Infant School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–7 · Solihull
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Damson Wood Nursery and Infant School is a primary school in Solihull for ages 3–7 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 22 January 2025. Solihull has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Damson Wood Nursery and Infant 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 |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place, as at 31 of the 50 other Solihull primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out in 1 of the 8 earlier Reception years; for Reception 2026 there were 26 first-choice applications for 28 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- There are 26.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Solihull.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 23.8% of pupils, against a middle figure of 16.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Solihull.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Solihull schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Stockwell Rise, Solihull, B92 9LX
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Solihull
- Pupils on roll
- 122 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 22 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and excited to learn in this inclusive school.”
- “The school provides high levels of care.”
- “Children quickly settle into school life.”
To improve
- “However, some parts of the early years curriculum are not designed sequentially from when two-year-olds join Woodies.”
- “This means that sometimes, children do not encounter new knowledge coherently from Woodies to the end of Year 2.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, 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 Solihull.
- Coppice Academy 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew Tree 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Greswold Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ulverley School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Valley Primary 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Alphege Church of England Infant and Nursery School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oak Cottage Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published