St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · Broadway, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.078 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Broadway, Worcestershire for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 June 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
St Mary'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 | 3.078 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
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 3.078 miles away, the 33rd longest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.17 miles).
- That 2026 Reception distance was further from the school than in 2020.
- The 2026 Reception entry had 17 first-choice applications for 15 offers; 13 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 46% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 23% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Leamington Road, Broadway, WR12 7DZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 86 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend St Mary's Catholic Primary School.”
- “They describe the school as ‘a small but friendly place where everyone knows one another well’.”
- “Pupils who are new say this helps them to settle in quickly.”
To improve
- “Despite this, in other areas of the curriculum, teachers’ pedagogical knowledge is less secure.”
- “Where this is the case, they do not adapt learning well enough to meet the needs of all pupils.”
- “This means that some pupils have gaps in their knowledge or do not build a depth of understanding over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 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) | 46% | 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: 17 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 Worcestershire.
- Broadway First School 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Badsey First School 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bretforton Village School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Honeybourne Primary Academy 3.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Richard's CofE First School 4.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sedgeberrow CofE First School 4.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bengeworth CE Academy 5.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Swan Lane First School 5.4 mi Good Last distance published