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Callow End CofE Primary School

Primary · Worcester · WR2 4TE

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 11 July 2023

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At a glance

109 pupils · 104% of 105 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
2–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
7.8% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
0% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
16.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
1.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.callowend.worcs.sch.uk
URN
147498

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 12 families named it first for 12 Reception places, 1.00 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2021 entry went to 1.204 miles; distance decided places in 1 of the 7 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2020 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Good on 11 July 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

12 places offered · 12 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2021 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1.204 miles

measured in a straight line.

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

12 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
67%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
8%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
106
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
105
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school67%
Median of its 12 closest peers65.5%
Worcestershire average62.5%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.

They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.

SchoolOfstedResult
Ringsfield Church of England Primary SchoolBeccles · 161 miles awayExpected standard50%
Esh CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolDurham · 184 miles awayExpected standard60%
Wendron Church of England Primary SchoolHelston · 191 miles awayGood60%
St Margaret's, Collier Street Church of England Voluntary Controlled SchoolTonbridge · 133 miles awayGood59%
Fawkham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolLONGFIELD · 120 miles awayGood73%
Luxulyan SchoolBodmin · 162 miles awayGood78%
High Ongar Primary SchoolOngar · 111 miles awayGood56%
Kirby Hill Church of England (VC) Primary SchoolYork · 140 miles awayExpected standard71%
Blackawton Primary SchoolTotnes · 139 miles awayGood50%
Worstead Church of England Primary SchoolNorth Walsham · 160 miles awayGood71%
Horwood and Newton Tracey Community Primary SchoolBarnstaple · 111 miles awayGood77%
Moreton Say CofE Primary SchoolMarket Drayton · 54 miles awayGood80%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 92% (Worcestershire 78%, England 60%) · Any other Mixed background 4% (Worcestershire 2%, England 3%) · White Gypsy/Roma 2% (Worcestershire 1%, England 0%) · Asian Indian 1% (Worcestershire 2%, England 4%) · Not recorded 1% (Worcestershire 3%, England 1%) · Any other White background 1% (Worcestershire 5%, England 7%)

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.5%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
11.4%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.00 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Worcestershire: 2.70 suspensions and 0.04 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
23.4
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £44,419; 20% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2024-25)

This school£9,012
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2024-25)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 70% (77%) · premises 5% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 12% (8%) · supplies and services 13% (9%) · educational supplies 7% (4%) · bought-in professional services 0% (2%) · catering 2% (5%)

Reserves (2024-25)

Revenue reserve £131,000; in-year balance +£22,000

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, DfE · how spending is compared

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
5/10around the middle for England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
5/10around the middle for England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher30.2%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications17.5%18.1%
In managerial or professional work34.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways16.3%18.1%
Residents in very good health43.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier80%62.3%
Social housing8.4%17.1%
Privately rented11.6%20.5%
Detached houses37.4%22.9%
Flats3.1%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms20%21.1%
Households with no car or van11.2%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01032206 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£322,50030 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£276,000–£384,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (10)£515,000
Semi-detached (16)£287,500

Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.94 km, 2021 entry): 142 sales, median £320,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
0a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted

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