Broadway First School
Ofsted: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 NextCommunity school · Primary
Broadway · WR12 7BD · Worcestershire
Ages 5–10
- Absence5.2%
- FSM11.0%
- Demand1.00
0.2 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 143638
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter · Broadway · WR12 7DZ
Ages 5–11 · 86 pupils · Worcestershire
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
73%
Overall absence
3.8%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-06-19
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)73%
Higher standard (RWM)9%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 108.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence3.8%
Persistent absence (10%+)3.8%
Unauthorised0.8%
- Authorised absence
- 3.0%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 78
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
10
Places offered
10
1st-preference offers
10
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 12
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 10
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill82%
86 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 86
- Boys / girls
- 49 / 37
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 86 / 105 (82%)
- Free school meals
- 12.8%
- FSM pupils
- 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Birmingham
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: ST RAPHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- ST RAPHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Our Lady of Lourdes MAC (North Worcs)
- Headteacher
- Mr Owen Finnegan
Location
- Address
- Leamington Road
- Postcode
- WR12 7DZ
- Town
- Broadway
- County
- Worcestershire
- Local authority
- Worcestershire
- District
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 5–11, in Broadway, Worcestershire, 86 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 12.8%. Religious character: Roman Catholic. Diocese: Archdiocese of Birmingham.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Willersey Church of England Primary School
Ofsted: School remains GoodVoluntary controlled school · Primary
Broadway · WR12 7PN · Gloucestershire
Ages 5–11
- KS244%
- Absence5.1%
- FSM37.8%
- Demand1.00
1.3 miles away
Other independent special school
Broadway · WR12 7DE · Worcestershire
Ages 13–19
0.6 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Owen Finnegan
- Telephone
- 01386853337