The Orchards School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–9 · Bromsgrove, 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 🔒
The Orchards School is a primary school in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for ages 3–9 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 March 2024. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
The Orchards 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 also happened at 94 of the 177 other Worcestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 34 first-choice applications for 40 offers, which is 0.8 first choices per offer and the 15th lowest of 174 Worcestershire primary schools.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 30.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 16.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Worcestershire.
- There are 19.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.9 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
- Perryfields Road, Bromsgrove, B61 8QN
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 230 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “The Orchards is a friendly and inclusive school.”
- “Pupils are happy and feel safe because staff are nurturing and caring.”
- “Pupils know who they can talk to if they are worried or upset about anything.”
To improve
- “In these subjects, pupils do not routinely complete the small steps of learning required to secure their understanding.”
- “In these subjects, pupils do not achieve as well as they could.”
- “The school’s published data for 2023 shows that the proportion of pupils who met the phonics screening check in Year 1 was below the national average.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 40 offers in total, 34 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.
- Meadows First School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Millfields First School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Dodford First School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic First School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Finstall First School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lickey End First School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Charford First School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Catshill First School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published