Moorlands Primary School
General Information
- Address: Winchester Road, West Bromwich, B71 2NZ – View on map
- Phone: 01215560352
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Katherine Roberts
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 24 families put it first for 24 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 86
- % eligible for free school meals: 41.7%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (less mixed than the Sandwell average)
- English as an additional language: 23% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 6.2% a year (Sandwell 14%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- Where they went: about 50% moved to another school, 50% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Sandwell: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 4 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Sandwell, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 8.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 27.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 20.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 55% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points below the Sandwell average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 56% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 56%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 66% · Writing 76% · Maths 66% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 62%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 101
- Based on: 29 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 60th of 84 junior and primary schools in the area
- =57St Gregory's Catholic Primary School57%
- =57Tipton Green Junior School57%
- =60Moorlands Primary School55%
- =60Uplands Manor Primary School and Nursery55%
- #62Eaton Valley Primary School54%
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View full Ofsted inspection report
35th of 54 primary schools in Sandwell for Ofsted rating
- #33Lyng Primary SchoolGood
- #34Mesty Croft PrimaryGood
- #35Moorlands Primary SchoolGood
- #36Newtown Primary SchoolGood
- #37Rood End Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil, and how this school compares to others nearby, will appear here once we've linked in official DfE spending data.
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