Wychbold First and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–9 · Droitwich, 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 🔒
Wychbold First and Nursery School is a primary school in Droitwich, Worcestershire for ages 3–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 October 2022. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Wychbold First and Nursery 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 20 first-choice applications for 20 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 39th highest of 174 Worcestershire primary schools.
- The school has 18.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.9 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire.
- 14.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 17.3% 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
- School Road, Wychbold, School Road, Droitwich, WR9 7PU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 138 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at Wychbold First and Nursery School.”
- “Relationships throughout the school, at all levels, are warm and trusting.”
- “Teachers set high expectations for pupils’ learning and personal development.”
To improve
- “However, some parents and carers feel that the pace of change has been too fast and that they have not been kept informed.”
- “However, this small number of pupils do not have enough time to practise and apply the new sounds they are learning, especially as they move into key stage 2.”
- “As a result, they do not become confident and fluent readers quickly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 20 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 20 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.
- Stoke Prior First School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hanbury CofE First School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Droitwich CofE Academy 2.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Westlands First School 2.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Chawson First School 2.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Millfields First School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic First School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published