Beoley First School
Primary · Redditch · B98 9AN
Data updated
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 30 April 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
104 pupils · 87% of 120 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–9
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 1% of pupils (January 2026)
- Website
- https://beoley.worcs.sch.uk
- URN
- 152048
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 23 families named it first for 26 Reception places, 0.88 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2023 entry went to 0.699 miles; distance decided places in 3 of the 7 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2020 to 2026. An ungraded Ofsted inspection on 30 April 2024 confirmed its earlier grade, Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 2.6% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.88 first-choice applications per place26 places offered · 23 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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 (2023 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.699 miles
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Redditch school admissions · Worcestershire school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 84% (Worcestershire 78%, England 60%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 5% (Worcestershire 1%, England 2%) · Any other Mixed background 4% (Worcestershire 2%, England 3%) · Any other White background 3% (Worcestershire 5%, England 7%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Worcestershire 1%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 1% (Worcestershire 1%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 1% (Worcestershire 2%, England 4%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Worcestershire 2%, England 5%) · White Gypsy/Roma 1% (Worcestershire 1%, England 0%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 7/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 37.3% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 19.2% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 44.4% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 10.7% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 50.1% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 89.3% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 2% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 8.7% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 61.7% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 3.3% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 42.8% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 5.9% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01032123 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £308,00089 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £245,000–£380,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
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 (1.12 km, 2023 entry): 112 sales, median £290,000. 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