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St Stephen's CofE First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Sponsored academy
Mabey Avenue, Colts Lane, Redditch B98 8HW · ststephensschool.org.uk · 0152763911
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2024
- 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
- 171
- 97% of 176 places
- Local authority
- Worcestershire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 26.2%
- First language not English
- 63.2%
- 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, 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.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 28 | 26 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 33 | 1.1▲ | 88% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 32 | 1.1▲ | 84% |
Ofsted
St Stephen's CofE First School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 13 March 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 13 Mar 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Oct 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 116845), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
- Jun 2019Monitoring visitEffective action
Oct 2017Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116845)
May 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116845)
What parents said
85% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (13 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 85%
- Replies
- 13
- 8% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 23% who had a child bullied