St George's CofE First School and Nursery

Academy sponsor led·First school Redditch, Worcestershire·B98 8LU

School type

First school

Ages 3–9

Key Stage 2 performance

St George's CofE First School and Nursery 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

97%

30 first choices, 29 places

First choices per place

1.03

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 29 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.17

00.511.5

1 per place

0.7120220.7320230.9620241.2020251.032026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St George's CofE First School and Nursery 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).

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

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–9
Pupils on roll: 171
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

12.7%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

71.3%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

15.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.5%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.8%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

20.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.0

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,238

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St Bede's Catholic Middle School Redditch · 0.2 mi 44.4 Woodfield Academy Redditch · 0.6 mi 17.6 Birchensale Middle School Redditch · 1.0 mi 41.0 Church Hill Middle School Redditch · 1.4 mi 42.5 Ipsley CofE Middle School Redditch · 1.4 mi 51.2 Walkwood Church of England Middle School Redditch · 1.5 mi 48.7 Webheath Academy Primary School Redditch · 1.8 mi 41.1 Astwood Bank Primary School Redditch · 2.9 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

St George's CofE First School and Nursery at a glance

Located in Redditch, Worcestershire, St George's CofE First School and Nursery is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 171 pupils aged 3 to 9. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection.

Competition for places is real here - 97% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (30 first choices for 29 places). Overall pupil absence was 7.8%. There are about 18.0 pupils per teacher. If you are considering St George's CofE First School and Nursery, 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.