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The Orchards School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Sponsored academy
Perryfields Road, Bromsgrove B61 8QN · theorchardsschool.org · 01527 872271
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
- 230
- 77% of 300 places
- Local authority
- Worcestershire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 30.9%
- First language not English
- 5.7%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- The Black Pear Trust
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, 34 families put the school first and 40 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 | 40 | 34 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 51 | 27 | 0.5 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 25 | 20 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 51 | 26 | 0.5 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 54 | 22 | 0.4 | 100% |
Ofsted
The Orchards School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 5 March 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 5 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, Jun 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 116664), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
- Mar 2021Monitoring visitEffective action
Before September 2019
Jun 2019Inadequate
Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116664)
- Sept 2018Monitoring visitEffective action
May 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 Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116664)
May 2010Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116664)
What parents said
89% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (38 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 89%
- Replies
- 38
- 15% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 26% who had a child bullied