St Thomas More Catholic First School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–9 · 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 🔒
St Thomas More Catholic First School is a primary school in Redditch, Worcestershire for ages 4–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 24 September 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
St Thomas More Catholic 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 Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 43 first-choice applications for 45 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 17.5% of pupils, against a middle figure of 26.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire.
- There are 22.5 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 18.3 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
- Woodrow Centre, Studley Road, Redditch, B98 7RY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–9
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 189 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 24 September 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish at St Thomas More Catholic First School.”
- “The school is at the centre of the community, and it is an inclusive and welcoming place.”
- “Pupils are proud to attend the school.”
To improve
- “The school recognises that the curriculum needs further embedding as it is still new.”
- “For example, in some wider curriculum subjects the school has not yet identified the precise knowledge it wants pupils to know and remember.”
- “As a result, pupils do not always gain the depth of understanding that they need to make links with previous learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 October 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 43 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.
- Woodrow First School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Oak Hill First School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Matchborough First School Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Crabbs Cross Academy 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St George's CofE First School and Nursery 1.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Arrow Valley First School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE First School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Tenacres First School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published