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Crocketts Community Primary School

PrimaryAges 2–11Community

Smethwick, B67 7DW · Sandwell local authority

Smethwick’s School Grade C better than 32% of towns in England

Its letter
37%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
60/84
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
472 pupils
112% of its 420 places
Free school meals
36%
36 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Crocketts Community Primary School

  • Its own letter, C+: Key Stage 2 results better than 37% of England’s primary schools
  • Over capacity: 472 pupils for 420 places
  • 36% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • 71% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (60 of 84)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B67 7) sold for a median £185,000; Smethwick’s is £210,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 58%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 36% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Sandwell avg 60%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Crocketts Community Primary 58%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading80%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)70%
England’s schools 73%
Maths83%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling83%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 22 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
55%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
71%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three8%
England’s schools 8% · Sandwell 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 Crocketts Community Primary School?

71% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

84
families put it first for September 2026
60
places offered
71%
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 (12), 2020 (23), 2021 (26), 2022 (23), 2023 (9), 2024 (18), 2025 (14), 2026 (24). 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. Sandwell council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Sandwell council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Smethwick, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

Crocketts Community Primary
1.40 per place
71% got their first choice
1.20 per place
81% got their first choice
1.20 per place
81% got their first choice
1.10 per place
85% got their first choice
1.02 per place
97% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice

Smethwick and Sandwell, side by side

2023–2025

All 84 graded primaries in Sandwell. 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. Smethwick’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%44%53%62%71%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Crocketts Community
ABCDElsewhere in SandwellCrocketts Community Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St John Bosco Catholic Primary SchoolA+30%84%
Grove Vale Primary SchoolA13%81%
Timbertree AcademyA44%81%
Ocker Hill AcademyA36%76%
St Pauls Church of England AcademyA37%76%
Grace Mary Primary SchoolA−31%75%
Langley Primary SchoolA−43%75%
George Betts Primary AcademyA−47%75%
Burnt Tree Primary SchoolA−32%73%
Whitecrest Primary SchoolA−17%73%
Ryders Green Primary SchoolA−39%73%
Galton Valley Primary SchoolA−49%73%
Moat Farm Junior SchoolA−41%73%
St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolA−41%72%
Tameside Primary AcademyA−54%71%
Brandhall Primary SchoolB+40%70%
Corngreaves AcademyB+39%69%
Shireland Hall Primary AcademyB+29%69%
Oakham Primary SchoolB+24%68%
Abbey Junior SchoolB22%66%
Old Hill Primary SchoolB37%66%
Lodge Primary SchoolB40%65%
Wednesbury Oak AcademyB45%65%
Devonshire Junior AcademyB39%65%
Hamstead Primary SchoolB−32%64%
Old Park Primary SchoolB−31%64%
Bearwood Primary SchoolB−45%64%
Lyng Primary SchoolB−34%64%
Joseph Turner Primary SchoolB−46%64%
Lightwoods Primary AcademyB−18%64%
Hargate Primary SchoolB−36%63%
Great Bridge Primary SchoolB−35%63%
Springfield Primary SchoolB−37%63%
Sacred Heart Primary SchoolB−42%63%
Tividale Hall Primary SchoolB−25%62%
St Margaret's CofE Primary SchoolB−15%62%
Victoria Park PrimaryB−41%61%
Jubilee Park AcademyB−62%61%
All Saints CofE Primary SchoolC+28%60%
Tividale Community Primary SchoolC+23%60%
Holyhead Primary AcademyC+45%60%
Hall Green Primary SchoolC+40%59%
Causeway Green Primary SchoolC+30%59%
The Priory Primary SchoolC+51%59%
St John's Church of England Primary AcademyC+47%59%
Holy Name Catholic Primary SchoolC+22%59%
Eaton Valley Primary SchoolC+26%58%
Crocketts Community Primary SchoolC+36%58%
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolC+20%58%
Glebefields Primary SchoolC62%57%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolC40%57%
Harvills Hawthorn Primary SchoolC34%57%
Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary SchoolC15%57%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolC25%57%
Moorlands Primary SchoolC42%56%
Blackheath Primary SchoolC38%56%
Pennyhill Primary SchoolC39%56%
Highfields Primary SchoolC36%55%
Perryfields Primary SchoolC34%55%
St James CofE Primary SchoolC49%55%
Wood Green Junior SchoolC42%54%
Annie Lennard Primary SchoolC37%54%
Ferndale Primary SchoolC−32%53%
King George V Primary SchoolC−39%53%
Bleakhouse Primary SchoolC−30%52%
Yew Tree Primary SchoolC−46%52%
St Martin's CofE Primary SchoolC−24%52%
Summerhill Primary AcademyC−53%52%
St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary SchoolC−29%51%
Uplands Manor Primary School and NurseryC−49%50%
St Philip's Catholic Primary SchoolC−35%49%
Rounds Green Primary SchoolC−40%49%
Cape Primary SchoolC−49%48%
Hanbury Primary SchoolC−39%48%
Tipton Green Junior SchoolC−51%48%
Temple Meadow Primary SchoolD40%47%
Mesty Croft PrimaryD47%46%
St Mary Magdalene CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolD24%45%
Newtown Primary SchoolD50%44%
Hateley Heath AcademyD33%43%
Park Hill Primary SchoolD31%42%
Brickhouse Primary SchoolD48%41%
Rood End Primary SchoolD45%39%
Reddal Hill Primary SchoolD−43%35%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

476 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
13.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
7.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
59.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
35.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Crocketts Community Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C+Better than 37% 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 (no overall grade since September 2024), January 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Crocketts Community Primary School

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

Home prices in B67 7, the school’s postcode sector

Smethwick property prices →
£185,000
median sale, 131 sales in 36 months · Smethwick £210,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025B67 7Smethwick
B67 7Smethwick

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£345K
Semi-detached
£230K
Terraced
£175K
B67 7Smethwick

Homes in B67 7 sell for a little under Smethwick’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

40 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−B−BCB−C−C−DCA−DC−CBB−A−A−C+B−DB+A−A−B+B−BB+C+CC−BB−A−A−DC+Crocketts Community Primary…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Smethwick, B67 7DW

Crocketts Community Primary School: common questions

Is Crocketts Community Primary School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 37% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C+), with 58% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025.

How hard is it to get into Crocketts Community Primary School?

For September 2026, 84 families put Crocketts Community Primary School first and 60 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.

What is Crocketts Community Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (January 2025).

How much do houses cost near Crocketts Community Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, B67 7, sold for a median £185,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (131 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; Smethwick’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.