Tameside Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Wednesbury, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Tameside Primary Academy is a primary school in Wednesbury, Sandwell for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 February 2023. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Tameside Primary Academy 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 75% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell.
- At the higher standard in reading, writing and maths, the 2024/25 figure was 17% (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place: 33 first-choice applications for 36 offers, with 3 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 48.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 42.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sandwell schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Price Road, Wednesbury, WS10 0EZ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 388 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 48.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 February 2023
Strengths
- “Tameside Primary Academy is a school where pupils and the school community are at the heart of everything leaders do.”
- “Leaders are ambitious for pupils.”
- “They ensure that pupils develop the knowledge and skills to be confident in life beyond school.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, leaders have not identified the precise knowledge that they want pupils to remember.”
- “This means that pupils do not always remember the important knowledge that leaders expect.”
- “In these subjects, subject leaders have not had the opportunity to monitor how well pupils learn the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 March 2023 (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) | 75% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 36 offers in total, 33 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 Sandwell.
- Mesty Croft Primary 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Park Hill Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Priory Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hall Green Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Moorlands Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Wood Green Junior School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published