Arrow Valley First School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–9 · 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 🔒
Arrow Valley First School is a primary school in Redditch, Worcestershire for ages 3–9 (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.
Arrow Valley 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
- Reception 2026 drew 25 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- 29.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire.
- Ofsted rated it Good on 20 February 2024; of the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire, 5 have no current grade, 2 are Good and 1 Requires improvement.
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
- Colts Lane, Redditch, B98 0LH
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 137 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils and the adults employed here all enjoy being part of Arrow Valley.”
- “One member of staff, summing up the view of other colleagues, said, ‘I love coming to work here.”
- “The ‘Valley Values’ are at the heart of the school’s work.”
To improve
- “Some pupils struggle in managing their behaviour and emotions.”
- “The quality of pupils’ written work and presentation in these subjects does not reflect the high standards they achieve in their English writing books.”
- “There are times, however, when the overuse of worksheets and structured activities for all pupils in the class limits what some pupils can write independently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 April 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 25 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 25 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.
- Tenacres First School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moons Moat First School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Matchborough First School Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Abbeywood First School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St George's CofE First School and Nursery 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Beoley First School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oak Hill First School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic First School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published