Upper Arley CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Bewdley, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.984 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Upper Arley CofE Primary School is a primary school in Bewdley, Worcestershire for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 February 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Upper Arley CofE Primary 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 | 4.984 mi |
| 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 4.984 miles away, the 15th longest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Every applicant was offered a place in 6 of the 7 years with a published Reception outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 10 first-choice applications for 10 offers; 3 of the 21 applications (14%) came from families outside Worcestershire, and 0 offers went to them.
- 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Upper Arley, Bewdley, DY12 1XA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 81 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are very proud to attend Upper Arley CofE Primary School.”
- “There is a real community feeling.”
- “The school’s vision, ‘One community, learning and growing together, sharing God’s love’, is threaded through the entire curriculum.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects pupils struggle to remember the content they are learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 March 2024 (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) | 70% | 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: 10 first-preference applications, 10 offers in total, 10 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.
- St Anne's CofE VC Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Franche Primary School 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bewdley Primary School 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Catherine's CofE (VC) Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wolverley Sebright Primary Academy 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John's CofE Primary School 4.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Sutton Park Primary School 4.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Far Forest Lea Memorial CofE Primary School 4.2 mi Not judged Last distance published