Moat Farm Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–7 · Oldbury, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Moat Farm Infant School is a primary school in Oldbury, Sandwell for ages 2–7 (academy converter). Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Moat Farm Infant 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, as at 63 of the 86 other Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2026 there were 110 first-choice applications for 113 Reception offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 27.5% of pupils, against a middle figure of 36.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell.
- The school has 20.2 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell is 22.5.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sandwell schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Brookfields Road, Oldbury, B68 9QR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 407 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 11 November 2025
Strengths
- “In all aspects of its work, the school’s motto of ‘At Moat Farm Infant School every day we learn, achieve, have fun and play’ is evident.”
- “Pupils love coming to school and learning.”
- “They say that behaviour is positive in school because ‘we are all friends’.”
To improve
- “However, there are occasions where teaching does not support pupils to learn key knowledge as well as it could.”
- “However, the strategies are not fully embedded.”
- “This means some pupils are not supported as well as they could be.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 January 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 110 first-preference applications, 113 offers in total, 110 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 Sandwell.
- Moat Farm Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bleakhouse Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Annie Lennard Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Brandhall Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rood End Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Causeway Green Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Langley Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published