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

Batchley First and Nursery School

URN 116721 · Primary · Community school · Worcestershire

Cherry Tree Walk, Redditch, B97 6PD

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 42 families named Batchley First and Nursery School as their first preference, and the school made 43 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 49% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 49% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.83 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 42 59 43 0.98
2024 37 61 39 0.95
2023 50 82 54 0.93
2022 38 65 48 0.79
2021 50 81 57 0.88
2020 54 86 57 0.95
2019 48 90 59 0.81
2018 48 80 50 0.96
2017 49 74 52 0.94
2016 56 89 60 0.93
2015 56 82 60 0.93
2014 49 72 57 0.86

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 2026202120232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 3 February 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 6 June 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Requires improvement

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 24 November 2021

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 16.6 16.2 0.0 0.4 2.4%
2023/24 19.2 16.1 1.0 2.1 16.1%
2022/23 17.4 16.2 0.6 0.6 6.9%
2021/22 18.4 15.4 1.0 2.0 16.3%
2020/21 19.8 18.8 1.0 0.0 5.1%
2019/20 19.0 17.0 0.0 2.0 10.5%

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 (Batchley First & Nursery).

Covers: 56 live postcodes across 0.924 km².

12 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 Batchley First and Nursery School. 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 Batchley First and Nursery School.

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.