Shireland Technology Primary
Primary · Free schools · Ages 3–11 · Smethwick, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.550 miles
Published by Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shireland Technology Primary is a primary school in Smethwick, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 17 October 2023. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Shireland Technology Primary 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 | 0.550 mi |
| 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 Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.550 miles away, the 11th longest of 22 Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 72 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families, and 14 first-choice families (19%) were not offered a place.
- 37 of the 141 applications (26%) for Reception 2026 came from families living outside Sandwell; 19 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 75% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Waterloo Road, Smethwick, B66 4ND
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 440 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 17 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are rightly proud to attend Shireland Technology Primary.”
- “It provides an exceptional education for all pupils.”
- “This is because leaders have successfully based the curriculum on the school’s vision: ‘bright futures for creative minds’.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 December 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: 72 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- Shireland Hall Primary Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cape Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Victoria Park Primary 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Bearwood Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Uplands Manor Primary School and Nursery 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Matthew's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Crocketts Community Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published