St Matthias Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Malvern Link, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
11.315 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Matthias Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Malvern Link, Worcestershire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 June 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
St Matthias Church of England 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 | 11.315 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 11.315 miles away, the 5th longest of 83 Worcestershire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.17 miles).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 6 of the 7 years with a published outcome, which run from 2020 to 2026.
- In 2024/25, 48% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Cromwell Road, Malvern Link, WR14 1NA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 162 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 44.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are welcoming, polite and respectful at St Matthias Church of England Primary School.”
- “Each day they try hard to live the school’s ethos of ‘aspire, achieve, believe.”
- “Staff care, they do their best to make sure pupils achieve well, particularly in mathematics.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, teachers do not always make sure gaps in pupils’ knowledge are closed before moving on.”
- “Where this happens, new learning does not build successfully on the things pupils already know.”
- “However, a few children struggle to develop an effective pencil grip or form letters correctly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 July 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) | 48% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 23 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.
- Somers Park Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Beacon View Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Northleigh CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Great Malvern Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Madresfield CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Malvern Parish CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St James' CofE Primary School 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published