The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Crown Meadow First School & Nursery

URN 116646 · Primary · Community school · Worcestershire

Birmingham Road, Birmingham, B48 7TA

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 56 families named Crown Meadow First School & Nursery as their first preference, and the school made 57 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 51% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 51% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.02 in 2021–2022 and 1.01 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 56 100 57 0.98
2024 61 103 59 1.03
2023 43 84 49 0.88
2022 56 106 60 0.93
2021 67 102 60 1.12
2020 51 97 60 0.85
2019 63 94 60 1.05
2018 60 106 60 1.00
2017 58 106 61 0.95
2016 80 121 60 1.33
2015 75 109 60 1.25
2014 69 112 60 1.15

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2021 to 202620212026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 24 February 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Needs attention

Leadership and governance: Needs attention

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 25 November 2021

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 17.0 13.6 1.0 2.4 20.0%
2023/24 15.2 11.6 2.0 1.6 23.7%
2022/23 15.2 14.2 0.0 1.0 6.6%
2021/22 17.7 14.4 2.0 1.3 18.6%
2020/21 17.3 17.3 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 15.9 14.0 1.0 0.9 11.9%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Worcestershire publishes an admission zone for this school (Crown Meadow First & Nursery).

Covers: 175 live postcodes across 19.314 km².

10 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Crown Meadow First School & Nursery. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Crown Meadow First School & Nursery.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.