St Matthew's CofE Primary School
Primary · Smethwick · B66 3LX
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 February 2026 · report published 19 April 2026
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470 pupils · 100% of 464 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 41.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 64.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.stmatthews-primary.co.uk
- URN
- 104000
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.02 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 61 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
59 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
89% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 7% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 February 2026: Expected standard
- 24 November 2021: School remains Good
- 4 October 2016: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.