School admissions in Cradley Heath
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 3 of these schools also have a published admissions cutoff distance. Sorted by first preferences per place. We don't invent rankings: the order is arithmetic on a published figure, not a view about which school is better.
Cradley Heath in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 5 schools in Cradley Heath first 197 times for 192 places: 1.03 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Sandwell authority's 86 schools. 2 of the 5 had more first choices than places.
Totals for the schools listed on this page. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE; last-offer distances as the council published them.
Reception places, September 2026
5 schools. 2 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Timbertree Academy | 1.37 | 30 |
| Corngreaves Academy | 1.10 | 30 |
| Old Hill Primary School | 0.96 | 27 |
| Temple Meadow Primary School | 0.92 | 53 |
| Reddal Hill Primary School | 0.92 | 52 |
First preferences per place is the number of families naming the school first, divided by its published admission number. Above 1.00 means more first choices than places. It is not a ranking and not a measure of quality: a popular school can be easy to get into and a quiet one hard, because places are allocated by each school's own criteria, siblings and faith and banding first, with distance often the last tie-breaker. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE.