Holyoakes Field First School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–9 · 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 🔒
Holyoakes Field First School is a primary school in Redditch, Worcestershire for ages 2–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 8 October 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Holyoakes Field 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out (a last distance was published) in 3 of the 6 earlier Reception years, and the last distance swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 49 first-choice applications for 51 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 13.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire is 21%.
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
- Cookridge Close, Redditch, B97 6HF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 315 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 8 October 2024
Strengths
- “A culture of nurture and care permeates all areas of everyday life at Holyoakes Field First School.”
- “Staff have the highest expectations for every child and want them to have the best possible start to education.”
- “Children flourish and do well.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, this work is not yet well developed.”
- “Some subject leaders do not yet have the required skills and expertise to improve their curriculums effectively.”
- “Where this happens, the precise knowledge pupils should learn, and in what order, is not identified as clearly as it could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 51 offers in total, 49 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.
- Batchley First and Nursery School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Stephen's CofE First School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St George's CofE First School and Nursery 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE First School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Webheath Academy Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oak Hill First School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Vaynor First School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published