Great Oldbury Primary Academy

Primary · Free schools · Ages 2–11 · Stonehouse, Gloucestershire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.50 miles

Published by Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Great Oldbury Primary Academy is a primary school in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire for ages 2–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 February 2024. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.

Great Oldbury Primary Academy 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	0.50 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

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.50 miles, 13th shortest of 88 Gloucestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance, where the middle figure was 1.56 miles.
That Reception distance has swung sharply between years, most between 2022 and 2023; the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
For Reception 2026 there were 54 first-choice applications for 45 offers; all 45 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families (17%) were not offered a place.
18.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gloucestershire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Veterans Way, Great Oldbury, Stonehouse, GL10 3WH
Type: Free schools
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–11
Admissions policy: Non-selective
Council: Gloucestershire
Pupils on roll: 242 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 18.6% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.8

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 27 February 2024

Strengths

“Great Oldbury Primary Academy is welcoming and friendly.”
“There is a positive and vibrant ethos that permeates through the school.”
“The school’s vision, ‘dream, believe, achieve’, clearly encapsulates its ambition to achieve the best outcomes for all pupils.”

To improve

“These changes are in their early stages and are not yet fully embedded.”
“It is not yet used with precision to check what pupils know and remember in the long term.”
“As a result, pupils’ recall and understanding of prior learning in the wider curriculum are less secure.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 April 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 54 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 45 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 Gloucestershire.

Park Junior School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
Stonehouse Park Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
Eastington Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
Leonard Stanley Church of England Primary School 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
Whitminster Endowed Church of England Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Foxmoor Primary School 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Randwick Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
Cashes Green Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published