Tenacres First School
Primary · Redditch · B98 0PB
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 3 March 2026 · report published 8 May 2026
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277 pupils · 92% of 300 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 5–9
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 20.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 16.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.2% of pupils
- Website
- www.tenacres.worcs.sch.uk
- URN
- 116729
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.07 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 64 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.
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)
92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% 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.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 3 March 2026: Needs attention
- 30 November 2021: School remains Good
- 10 May 2016: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.