Blackwell First School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–9 · Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.584 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Blackwell First School is a primary school in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for ages 2–9 (academy converter). Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Blackwell 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 | 1.584 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
- Reception 2026 had 59 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families and 30 first-choice families (51%) were not offered a place.
- Its 2.0 first choices per offer for Reception 2026 was the highest of 174 Worcestershire primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, the last distance offered was 1.584 miles, for out-of-area children with a sibling there; that was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2020.
- Of its pupils, 2.1% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 7.4% 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
- St Catherine's Road, Blackwell, Bromsgrove, B60 1BN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–9
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 187 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Lickey End First School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE First School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lickey Hills Primary School and Nursery 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Finstall First School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Meadows First School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Catshill First School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Tardebigge CofE First School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Crown Meadow First School & Nursery 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published