Ashwood Park Primary School

Community school·Primary school Stourbridge, Dudley·DY8 5DJ
Composite score
20.2
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#14,448
National rank
#1537
In West Midlands
#78
In Dudley
Top 98%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
31%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
32 first choices, 35 places
First choices per place
0.91
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
68
any preference, for 35 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Ashwood Park Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
312
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
25.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
11.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,077
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Ashwood Park Primary School at a glance

Located in Stourbridge, Dudley, Ashwood Park Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 312 pupils aged 3 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 31% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 19.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on 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 103 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Ashwood Park Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 32 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.7%. There are about 19.8 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Ashwood Park Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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