St Philip's Catholic Primary School
Smethwick, B66 3DU · Sandwell local authority
Smethwick’s School Grade C better than 32% of towns in England
What stands out about St Philip's Catholic Primary School
- Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 16% of England’s primary schools
- 49% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13 points below England’s schools
- 35% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, May 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (13 of 13)
- Homes in its postcode sector (B66 3) sold for a median £190,000; Smethwick’s is £210,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 49%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 16% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Sandwell avg 60%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 105, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 12 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
How hard is it to get a place at St Philip's Catholic Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (3), 2021 (4). 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. Emmaus Catholic Multi Academy Company sets the admissions rules. Apply through Sandwell council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Smethwick and Sandwell, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John Bosco Catholic Primary School | A+ | 30% | 84% |
| Grove Vale Primary School | A | 13% | 81% |
| Timbertree Academy | A | 44% | 81% |
| Ocker Hill Academy | A | 36% | 76% |
| St Pauls Church of England Academy | A | 37% | 76% |
| Grace Mary Primary School | A− | 31% | 75% |
| Langley Primary School | A− | 43% | 75% |
| George Betts Primary Academy | A− | 47% | 75% |
| Burnt Tree Primary School | A− | 32% | 73% |
| Whitecrest Primary School | A− | 17% | 73% |
| Ryders Green Primary School | A− | 39% | 73% |
| Galton Valley Primary School | A− | 49% | 73% |
| Moat Farm Junior School | A− | 41% | 73% |
| St Matthew's CofE Primary School | A− | 41% | 72% |
| Tameside Primary Academy | A− | 54% | 71% |
| Brandhall Primary School | B+ | 40% | 70% |
| Corngreaves Academy | B+ | 39% | 69% |
| Shireland Hall Primary Academy | B+ | 29% | 69% |
| Oakham Primary School | B+ | 24% | 68% |
| Abbey Junior School | B | 22% | 66% |
| Old Hill Primary School | B | 37% | 66% |
| Lodge Primary School | B | 40% | 65% |
| Wednesbury Oak Academy | B | 45% | 65% |
| Devonshire Junior Academy | B | 39% | 65% |
| Hamstead Primary School | B− | 32% | 64% |
| Old Park Primary School | B− | 31% | 64% |
| Bearwood Primary School | B− | 45% | 64% |
| Lyng Primary School | B− | 34% | 64% |
| Joseph Turner Primary School | B− | 46% | 64% |
| Lightwoods Primary Academy | B− | 18% | 64% |
| Hargate Primary School | B− | 36% | 63% |
| Great Bridge Primary School | B− | 35% | 63% |
| Springfield Primary School | B− | 37% | 63% |
| Sacred Heart Primary School | B− | 42% | 63% |
| Tividale Hall Primary School | B− | 25% | 62% |
| St Margaret's CofE Primary School | B− | 15% | 62% |
| Victoria Park Primary | B− | 41% | 61% |
| Jubilee Park Academy | B− | 62% | 61% |
| All Saints CofE Primary School | C+ | 28% | 60% |
| Tividale Community Primary School | C+ | 23% | 60% |
| Holyhead Primary Academy | C+ | 45% | 60% |
| Hall Green Primary School | C+ | 40% | 59% |
| Causeway Green Primary School | C+ | 30% | 59% |
| The Priory Primary School | C+ | 51% | 59% |
| St John's Church of England Primary Academy | C+ | 47% | 59% |
| Holy Name Catholic Primary School | C+ | 22% | 59% |
| Eaton Valley Primary School | C+ | 26% | 58% |
| Crocketts Community Primary School | C+ | 36% | 58% |
| St Gregory's Catholic Primary School | C+ | 20% | 58% |
| Glebefields Primary School | C | 62% | 57% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Primary School | C | 40% | 57% |
| Harvills Hawthorn Primary School | C | 34% | 57% |
| Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School | C | 15% | 57% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | C | 25% | 57% |
| Moorlands Primary School | C | 42% | 56% |
| Blackheath Primary School | C | 38% | 56% |
| Pennyhill Primary School | C | 39% | 56% |
| Highfields Primary School | C | 36% | 55% |
| Perryfields Primary School | C | 34% | 55% |
| St James CofE Primary School | C | 49% | 55% |
| Wood Green Junior School | C | 42% | 54% |
| Annie Lennard Primary School | C | 37% | 54% |
| Ferndale Primary School | C− | 32% | 53% |
| King George V Primary School | C− | 39% | 53% |
| Bleakhouse Primary School | C− | 30% | 52% |
| Yew Tree Primary School | C− | 46% | 52% |
| St Martin's CofE Primary School | C− | 24% | 52% |
| Summerhill Primary Academy | C− | 53% | 52% |
| St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School | C− | 29% | 51% |
| Uplands Manor Primary School and Nursery | C− | 49% | 50% |
| St Philip's Catholic Primary School | C− | 35% | 49% |
| Rounds Green Primary School | C− | 40% | 49% |
| Cape Primary School | C− | 49% | 48% |
| Hanbury Primary School | C− | 39% | 48% |
| Tipton Green Junior School | C− | 51% | 48% |
| Temple Meadow Primary School | D | 40% | 47% |
| Mesty Croft Primary | D | 47% | 46% |
| St Mary Magdalene CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School | D | 24% | 45% |
| Newtown Primary School | D | 50% | 44% |
| Hateley Heath Academy | D | 33% | 43% |
| Park Hill Primary School | D | 31% | 42% |
| Brickhouse Primary School | D | 48% | 41% |
| Rood End Primary School | D | 45% | 39% |
| Reddal Hill Primary School | D− | 43% | 35% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025216 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.
Girls and boys
St Philip's Catholic Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), May 2024.
Living near St Philip's Catholic Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in B66 3, the school’s postcode sector
Smethwick property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in B66 3 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
42 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Smethwick, B66 3DU
St Philip's Catholic Primary School: common questions
Is St Philip's Catholic Primary School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 16% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C−), with 49% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, May 2024.
How hard is it to get into St Philip's Catholic Primary School?
For September 2026, 13 families put St Philip's Catholic Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 15 places were offered in all.
What is St Philip's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (May 2024).
How much do houses cost near St Philip's Catholic Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, B66 3, sold for a median £190,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (91 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.
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