Batchley First and Nursery School

Community school·First school Redditch, Worcestershire·B97 6PD

School type

First school

Ages 3–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Batchley First and Nursery School is a first school for pupils aged 3–9. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every first school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

33 first choices, 35 places

First choices per place

0.94

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 35 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

0.7920220.9320230.9520240.9820250.942026

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

Every child who put Batchley First and Nursery 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).

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 03/02/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement

Needs attention

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour

Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Expected standard

Inclusion

Expected standard

Safeguarding standards

Met

Early years

Expected standard

School profile

Age range: 3–9
Pupils on roll: 260
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

45.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

18.1%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

27.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

23.5%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

15.2

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£9,739

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Birchensale Middle School Redditch · 0.4 mi 41.0 Webheath Academy Primary School Redditch · 0.8 mi 41.1 Walkwood Church of England Middle School Redditch · 1.4 mi 48.7 St Bede's Catholic Middle School Redditch · 1.5 mi 44.4 Woodfield Academy Redditch · 1.8 mi 17.6 Church Hill Middle School Redditch · 2.6 mi 42.5 Ipsley CofE Middle School Redditch · 2.9 mi 51.2 Astwood Bank Primary School Redditch · 3.2 mi 47.8

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Batchley First and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Redditch, Worcestershire, Batchley First and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 260 pupils aged 3 to 9. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' when it was last inspected in February 2026.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Batchley First and Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 35 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 15.2 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 46% 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. If you are considering Batchley First and Nursery 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.