Grimley and Holt CofE Primary School

Voluntary controlled school·Primary school Worcestershire·WR2 6LU
Composite score
11.7
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#14,708
National rank
#1561
In West Midlands
#127
In Worcestershire
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
18%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
92%
13 first choices, 12 places
First choices per place
1.08
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
23
any preference, for 12 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.28
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0820231.0020240.8020251.082026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Grimley and Holt CofE Primary School yet. Worcestershire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
92
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
13.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
4.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
13.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,253
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Grimley and Holt CofE Primary School is a primary school serving Worcestershire, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school with a Church of England religious character. It has 92 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 18% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 47.0 percentage points compared with the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to 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 104 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Grimley and Holt CofE Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 13 first choices for 12 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 13.9 pupils per teacher. Grimley and Holt CofE Primary 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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