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Amblecote Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Community

Stourbridge, DY8 4DQ · Dudley local authority

Stourbridge’s School Grade B better than 63% of towns in England

Its letter
72%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
43/46
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
299 pupils
95% of its 315 places
Free school meals
22%
22 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Amblecote Primary School

  • Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 72% of England’s primary schools
  • 70% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8 points above England’s schools
  • Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 93% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (43 of 46)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (DY8 4) sold for a median £248,000; Stourbridge’s is £270,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 70%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 72% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Dudley avg 60%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Amblecote Primary 70%

Each subject, 2025

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

Reading87%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)76%
England’s schools 73%
Maths80%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling78%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 14 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
29%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
90%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three11%
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 Amblecote Primary School?

93% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

46
families put it first for September 2026
45
places offered
93%
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: 2020 (21), 2021 (1), 2022 (3), 2023 (12), 2025 (3), 2026 (3). 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. Dudley council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Dudley council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Stourbridge, September 2026

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

1.27 per place
78% got their first choice
1.23 per place
81% got their first choice
1.22 per place
82% got their first choice
1.20 per place
78% got their first choice
1.03 per place
97% got their first choice
Amblecote Primary
1.02 per place
93% got their first choice
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice
0.97 per place
91% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
92% got their first choice

Stourbridge 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. Stourbridge’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 →Amblecote
ABCDElsewhere in DudleyAmblecote 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

302 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
14.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
22.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 53%Boys 47%
Its letter

Amblecote Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 72% 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.

Report card, inspection starting May 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Amblecote Primary School

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

Home prices in DY8 4, the school’s postcode sector

Stourbridge property prices →
£248,000
median sale, 711 sales in 36 months · Stourbridge £270,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025DY8 4Stourbridge
DY8 4Stourbridge

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£370K
Semi-detached
£245K
Terraced
£221K
Flat
£167K
DY8 4Stourbridge

Homes in DY8 4 sell for a little under Stourbridge’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

24 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−A−B−B−A−D−DD−CABABCDD−C−C+DC+CC+DB−B+Amblecote Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Stourbridge, DY8 4DQ

Amblecote Primary School: common questions

Is Amblecote Primary School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 72% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 70% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in May 2026.

How hard is it to get into Amblecote Primary School?

For September 2026, 46 families put Amblecote Primary School first and 43 of them were offered a place; 45 places were offered in all.

What is Amblecote Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Amblecote Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, DY8 4, sold for a median £248,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (711 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; Stourbridge’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.