Moorlands Primary School

Moorlands Primary School is a friendly, welcoming and inclusive school where pupils feel safe and achieve well from their starting points. The inspection found personal development and wellbeing to be a strong feature, with pupils developing empathy, resilience and a secure understanding of diversity, and benefiting from a wide range of clubs, trips and enrichment activities. Safeguarding standards are met. Most areas, including achievement, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, and leadership and governance, are at the expected standard. The school serves a relatively small primary community with a high proportion of disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEN support, and its location is in a well above average deprivation area. Leaders place inclusion at the centre of their work and support pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils well, although published outcomes are slightly below national in some areas, including reading and mathematics. Attendance is the main concern. Overall absence and persistent absence remain well above national averages, and some pupils with SEND and persistently absent pupils miss too much learning. Leaders have taken recent action and there are early signs of improvement, but these are not yet secure. Inspectors also identified that early years staff do not always extend children's language and learning during activities, and that in some lessons staff do not address misunderstandings quickly enough.

Strengths

• Personal development and wellbeing are a strong feature, with pupils learning to understand and manage their emotions.
• Pupils show empathy, kindness and a deep understanding of difference and diversity.
• A wide range of clubs, trips and enrichment activities, including outdoor learning, gardening, cooking, sports and music.
• Disadvantaged pupils are supported carefully so they can take part fully in school life and extra opportunities.
• Pupils take on leadership roles such as school council members, house captains and peacemakers with pride.
• The curriculum is well sequenced and consistently delivered, helping pupils build knowledge over time.
• Teachers adapt learning well so that pupils with SEND access the same curriculum as their peers.
• Inclusion is central to the school's work, with early identification of needs and effective support.
• Leaders and governors have a clear understanding of the school and manage resources and priorities effectively.
• Behaviour is calm and positive, and staff deal with bullying and discriminatory behaviour effectively.
• Early years provision is nurturing and prepares children well for Reception, especially through routines and communication support.
• Pupils feel safe, trust adults and benefit from positive relationships across the school.

Areas for Improvement

• Attendance remains below national levels, with too many pupils missing school regularly.
• Persistent absence is well above the national average and improvements are recent and not yet secure.
• Some pupils with SEND and persistently absent pupils continue to miss too much learning.
• Published outcomes in reading and mathematics are below national figures, and combined reading, writing and mathematics is slightly below.
• Disadvantaged pupils' attainment remains below non-disadvantaged national figures across key measures.
• In early years, adults do not always interact with children to extend language and learning during activities.
• In some lessons, staff do not identify and address misunderstandings quickly enough, which can limit learning.
• A small number of parental concerns remain, although leaders are working to address them.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Moorlands Primary School attended 91.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 27.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.0% of pupils at Moorlands Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Moorlands Primary School had 21.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 17.2% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 20.9% of pupils at Moorlands Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Moorlands Primary School received £8,841 and spent £8,849 for each of its 206 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £182,000 (£885 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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All schools in West Bromwich · Sandwell local authority: places and applications

Moorlands Primary School is part of Wednesday Learning Community Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Harvills Hawthorn Primary School West Bromwich
• Park Hill Primary School Wednesbury
• Wood Green Junior School Wednesbury
• Albert Pritchard Infant School Wednesbury
• Old Park Primary School Wednesbury

What is Moorlands Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Moorlands Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Moorlands Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Moorlands Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Moorlands Primary School have?

Moorlands Primary School has 206 pupils on roll.

What age range does Moorlands Primary School cover?

Moorlands Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

What are Moorlands Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 55% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Moorlands Primary School?

Moorlands Primary School is at Winchester Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B71 2NZ.