Tenterfields Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school HALESOWEN, Dudley·B63 3LH
Composite score
40.7
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National rank
#1159
In West Midlands
#61
In Dudley
Top 72%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
94%
31 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
96
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
17%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.16
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1 per place
0.6920221.0020230.9020240.8820251.032026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Tenterfields Primary Academy yet. Dudley 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
216
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
8.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
8.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,465
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Tenterfields Primary Academy

Tenterfields Primary Academy is a primary school in HALESOWEN, Dudley, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 216 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. 50% 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 31.0 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 104 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Tenterfields Primary Academy is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 31 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.0%. There are about 15.0 pupils per teacher. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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