Academy sponsor led · Primary
Smethwick · B66 1RE · Sandwell
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 103984
Rood End Primary School
Community school · Oldbury · B68 8SQ
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
428
Local authority
Sandwell
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Oldbury, Sandwell, 428 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 45.2%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 103984
Location
- Address
- Rood End Road
- Postcode
- B68 8SQ
- Town
- Oldbury
- County
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- District
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Smethwick
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 428
- Boys / girls
- 233 / 195
- School capacity
- 488
- Capacity fill
- 428 / 488 (88%)
- Free school meals
- 45.2%
- FSM pupils
- 174
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jayne O'Neill
- Telephone
- 01215521866
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2024-11-19
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 42%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 6%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 100.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 101.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
7.4%
Persistent absence
25.8%
Unauthorised
2.9%
- Authorised absence
- 4.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 407
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 7.1% · Persistent 25.1%
- 2021/22
- Overall 7.8% · Persistent 30.2%