Caslon Primary Community School

Community school·Primary school Halesowen, Dudley·B63 2ES
Composite score
40.8
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#10,680
National rank
#1156
In West Midlands
#60
In Dudley
Top 72%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
52%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
23 first choices, 24 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
46
any preference, for 24 places
Last place offered lived
1.76 mi
straight line, 2026 intake · 2837 m
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7620220.8620230.9720240.9620250.962026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
268
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
37.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
14.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
8.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
30.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,456
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

School overview

Caslon Primary Community School is a primary school serving Halesowen, Dudley, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 268 pupils aged 2 to 11 on roll. 52% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 15.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Caslon Primary Community School their first choice was offered one of its 24 Reception places. In 2026 the furthest child offered a place lived 1.76 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. Overall pupil absence was 8.5%. There are about 18.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Caslon Primary Community School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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