How far do you need to live from a school in Sandwell to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 47 Sandwell schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.77 miles away; the tightest was Crocketts Community Primary School at 0.28 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Sandwell schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Sandwell schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Sandwell publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 47 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

47schools with a published figure

0.77 mithe middle school's distance

32filled within a mile

The tightest is Crocketts Community Primary School at 0.28 miles in varies; the most far-reaching, Ferndale Primary School, admitted from 4.39 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Crocketts Community Primary School Smethwick	No current grade	0.28 mi	varies	112%
Park Hill Primary School Wednesbury	Requires improvement	0.32 mi	varies	110%
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School Smethwick	No current grade	0.33 mi	varies	110%
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School West Bromwich	No current grade	0.34 mi	varies	116%
Blackheath Primary School Rowley Regis	No current grade	0.4 mi	varies	101%
St John's Church of England Primary Academy Wednesbury	Good	0.42 mi	varies	92%
Galton Valley Primary School Smethwick	Good	0.43 mi	varies	109%
Lodge Primary School West Bromwich	No current grade	0.43 mi	varies	89%
Burnt Tree Primary School Oldbury	No current grade	0.46 mi	varies	94%
Ryders Green Primary School West Bromwich	Good	0.46 mi	varies	108%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School West Bromwich	Good	0.49 mi	varies	99%
King George V Primary School West Bromwich	No current grade	0.51 mi	varies	88%
Grace Mary Primary School Oldbury	No current grade	0.53 mi	varies	92%
Grove Vale Primary School Birmingham	Outstanding	0.55 mi	varies	100%
Shireland Technology Primary Smethwick	Outstanding	0.55 mi	varies	99%
Corngreaves Academy Cradley Heath	Good	0.61 mi	varies	93%
Hargate Primary School West Bromwich	No current grade	0.61 mi	varies	103%
Springfield Primary School Rowley Regis	Good	0.64 mi	varies	93%
Tividale Hall Primary School Oldbury	No current grade	0.65 mi	varies	not published
Christ Church Church of England Primary School Oldbury	No current grade	0.66 mi	varies	not published
Oakham Primary School Oldbury	No current grade	0.66 mi	varies	97%
Abbey Junior School Smethwick	No current grade	0.67 mi	varies	99%
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Wednesbury	No current grade	0.67 mi	varies	110%
St Margaret's CofE Primary School Birmingham	Good	0.77 mi	varies	92%
Lightwoods Primary Academy Oldbury, Sandwell	Good	0.78 mi	varies	106%
Hall Green Primary School West Bromwich	No current grade	0.82 mi	varies	111%
Harvills Hawthorn Primary School West Bromwich	No current grade	0.85 mi	varies	89%
Hanbury Primary School West Bromwich	Good	0.87 mi	varies	94%
All Saints CofE Primary School West Bromwich	Good	0.95 mi	varies	108%
Holyhead Primary Academy Wednesbury	Good	0.99 mi	varies	107%
Great Bridge Primary School Tipton	No current grade	1.04 mi	varies	91%
Joseph Turner Primary School Tipton	Good	1.13 mi	varies	85%
The Priory Primary School Wednesbury	No current grade	1.16 mi	varies	102%
Ocker Hill Infant School Tipton	No current grade	1.28 mi	varies	86%
Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School Oldbury	No current grade	1.28 mi	varies	99%
Annie Lennard Primary School Smethwick	No current grade	1.29 mi	varies	97%
Tividale Community Primary School Oldbury	Good	1.35 mi	varies	106%
Old Hill Primary School Cradley Heath	Good	1.5 mi	varies	113%
Whitecrest Primary School Birmingham	No current grade	1.71 mi	varies	94%
Newtown Primary School West Bromwich	Good	3.69 mi	varies	97%
Ferndale Primary School Birmingham	Good	4.39 mi	varies	81%

Secondary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Bristnall Hall Academy Oldbury	Outstanding	0.82 mi	varies	108%
St Michael's Church of England High School Rowley Regis	No current grade	0.84 mi	varies	101%
Q3 Academy Langley Oldbury	No current grade	1.17 mi	varies	99%
Q3 Academy Great Barr Birmingham	No current grade	1.25 mi	varies	100%
Wodensborough Ormiston Academy Wednesbury	Good	1.36 mi	varies	96%
Windsor Olympus Academy Birmingham	No current grade	1.93 mi	varies	59%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Sandwell measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Sandwell. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.