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Damson Wood Nursery and Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Sponsored academy
Stockwell Rise, Solihull B92 9LX · damson-wood.co.uk · 0121 705 8652
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Jan 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Solihull Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 122
- 51% of 240 places
- Local authority
- Solihull
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 28.1%
- First language not English
- 33.6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Solihull Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 26 families put the school first and 28 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 28 | 26 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 26 | 24 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 90% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 26 | 24 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 34 | 30 | 0.9 | 97% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2025 | All | |
| September 2024 | 1.10 mi1.77 km | |
The council says all on time applicants were offered a place.
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 22 January 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Damson Wood Nursery and Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 21 Jan 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jul 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 104055), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jul 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Sept 2014Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 104055)
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (13 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 13
- 10% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 15% who had a child bullied