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Badsey First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–10 · Sponsored academy
School Lane, Badsey, Evesham WR11 7ES · badseyfirstschool.org.uk · 01386 830325
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Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jul 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Worcestershire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 122
- 68% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Worcestershire
- Free school meals
- 23.8%
- First language not English
- 4.1%
- 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: Worcestershire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 25 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.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 28 | 25 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 24 | 22 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 97% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Badsey First School on 15 July 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 15 Jul 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Feb 2023
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 116651), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2023Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2017Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116651)
Mar 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116651)
What parents said
76% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (33 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 76%
- Replies
- 33
- 23% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 67% who raised concerns
based on the 30% who had a child bullied