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St Chad's Catholic Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11AcademyRoman Catholic

Sedgley, DY3 3UE · Dudley local authority

Sedgley’s School Grade C+ better than 37% of towns in England

Its letter
93%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
28/28
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
238 pupils
113% of its 210 places
Free school meals
17%
17 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Chad's Catholic Primary School

  • Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 93% of England’s primary schools
  • 81% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19 points above England’s schools
  • Over capacity: 238 pupils for 210 places
  • Ofsted: Good, May 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 28)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (DY3 3) sold for a median £276,250; Sedgley’s is £239,975

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 81%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 93% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Dudley avg 60%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%St Chad's Catholic Primary 81%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 106 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading97%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)86%
England’s schools 73%
Maths97%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling93%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three10%
England’s schools 8% · Dudley 7% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Chad's Catholic Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

28
families put it first for September 2026
29
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (1), 2020 (10), 2021 (5), 2022 (5), 2023 (4), 2024 (4), 2025 (11). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Dudley council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Sedgley, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.03 per place
97% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
St Chad's Catholic Primary
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice
0.79 per place
100% got their first choice

Sedgley and Dudley, side by side

2023–2025

All 75 graded primaries in Dudley. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Sedgley’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%45%55%65%75%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Red HallCotwall EndRobertsStraitsAlder CoppiceQueen VictoriaSt Chad's Catholic
ABCDElsewhere in DudleySt Chad's Catholic Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolA+26%89%
Pedmore CE Primary SchoolA+7%83%
Blowers Green Primary SchoolA41%82%
Our Lady and St Kenelm RC SchoolA12%81%
St Chad's Catholic Primary SchoolA17%81%
Manor Way Primary AcademyA9%79%
Oldswinford C of E Primary SchoolA8%76%
Lutley Primary SchoolA−10%75%
Cradley CofE Primary SchoolA−21%74%
Bramford Primary SchoolA−21%73%
Brockmoor Primary SchoolA−46%72%
The Ridge Primary SchoolA−10%72%
Blanford Mere Primary SchoolA−9%71%
Church of the Ascension CofE Primary SchoolA−5%71%
Amblecote Primary SchoolB+22%70%
Straits Primary SchoolB+7%70%
Lapal Primary SchoolB+8%69%
Newfield Park Primary AcademyB+10%69%
Cotwall End Primary SchoolB8%67%
St Joseph's RC Primary SchoolB6%67%
Maidensbridge Primary SchoolB4%66%
Glynne Primary SchoolB6%66%
St James's CofE Primary SchoolB16%66%
Tenterfields Primary AcademyB16%66%
Howley Grange Primary SchoolB14%65%
Ham Dingle Primary AcademyB20%65%
Netherbrook Primary SchoolB37%65%
Olive Hill Primary AcademyB27%65%
Colley Lane Primary AcademyB−32%64%
Peters Hill Primary SchoolB−17%63%
Wollescote Primary SchoolB−36%63%
Brook Primary SchoolB−27%62%
Greenfield Primary SchoolB−12%62%
Wrens Nest Primary SchoolB−58%61%
Dawley Brook Primary SchoolC+11%60%
Alder Coppice Primary SchoolC+19%60%
Caslon Primary Community SchoolC+40%59%
Hurst Green Primary SchoolC+17%59%
Fairhaven Primary SchoolC+25%59%
Crestwood Park Primary SchoolC+26%58%
Roberts Primary SchoolC+30%58%
Northfield Road Primary SchoolC+36%58%
Withymoor Primary SchoolC+17%58%
Dingle Community Primary SchoolC25%56%
Kates Hill Primary SchoolC45%56%
Queen Victoria Primary SchoolC37%56%
Mount Pleasant Primary SchoolC26%55%
St Margaret's At Hasbury CofE Primary SchoolC23%55%
Foxyards Primary SchoolC24%54%
Gig Mill Primary SchoolC20%54%
Rufford Primary SchoolC−42%53%
Brierley Hill Primary SchoolC−56%52%
Sledmere Primary SchoolC−54%52%
Huntingtree Primary SchoolC−35%52%
Quarry Bank Primary SchoolC−44%51%
Halesowen CofE Primary SchoolC−62%51%
Dudley Wood Primary SchoolC−30%51%
Christ Church CofE Primary SchoolC−31%51%
St Mark's CofE Primary SchoolC−42%50%
Bromley Hills Primary SchoolD26%47%
Hob Green Primary SchoolD42%47%
The Bromley-Pensnett Primary SchoolD47%46%
Beechwood Church of England Primary SchoolD52%45%
Hurst Hill Primary SchoolD30%45%
Priory Primary SchoolD47%45%
Wallbrook Primary AcademyD44%45%
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolD21%44%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolD21%44%
Red Hall Primary SchoolD41%43%
Netherton CofE Primary SchoolD34%43%
Thorns Primary SchoolD47%42%
Woodside Primary School and NurseryD39%40%
Ashwood Park Primary SchoolD−26%38%
Russells Hall Primary SchoolD−31%37%
Belle Vue Primary SchoolD−12%37%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

247 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
12.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
16.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
21%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 47%Boys 53%
Its letter

St Chad's Catholic Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths ABetter than 93% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, May 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), March 2020.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Chad's Catholic Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in DY3 3, the school’s postcode sector

Sedgley property prices →
£276,250
median sale, 350 sales in 36 months · Sedgley £239,975

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025DY3 3Sedgley
DY3 3Sedgley

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£340K
Semi-detached
£262K
Terraced
£242K
Flat
£115K
DY3 3Sedgley

Homes in DY3 3 sell for well over Sedgley’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

17 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDBC+B−B+C+C+A−B−A−C+C+AB−DCB+ASt Chad's Catholic Primary …
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Sedgley, DY3 3UE

St Chad's Catholic Primary School: common questions

Is St Chad's Catholic Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 93% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 81% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, May 2023.

How hard is it to get into St Chad's Catholic Primary School?

For September 2026, 28 families put St Chad's Catholic Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 29 places were offered in all.

What is St Chad's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (May 2023).

How much do houses cost near St Chad's Catholic Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, DY3 3, sold for a median £276,250 over the 36 months to August 2026 (350 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Sedgley’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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