St George's CofE School Kidderminster, Kidderminster
St George's CofE School Kidderminster is a primary school for pupils aged 2 to 11 in Kidderminster, part of The Black Pear Trust. It has a Church of England religious character. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in January 2024. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 22nd-highest of the 23 schools in Kidderminster with published results, and 13,886th of 14,452 across England. It was 90% full in 2025.
- SATs results
- Below England average
- Ofsted
- Good (2024)
- Demand
- Every first choice offered
- Attendance
- In line with England
Reception applications for September 2027 close in 75 days
Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Worcestershire (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.
Data last updated 1 Nov 2026
St George's CofE School Kidderminster in detail
St George's CofE School Kidderminster in its own words
Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football and rugby.
The school runs a breakfast club and after-school care.
Clubs (school website)Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Results
In 2025, 48% of Year 6 pupils at St George's CofE School Kidderminster reached the expected standard in reading and 52% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 74% in Worcestershire and 77% and 75% across England.
Results fell from 70% in reading and 83% in maths in 2024.
With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.
Getting a place at St George's CofE School Kidderminster
For September 2026 entry, 21 families put St George's CofE School Kidderminster as their first choice and 47 named it as one of their preferences, for 21 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.
Admissions history and your chances at St George's CofE School Kidderminster
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to St George's CofE School Kidderminster are St Ambrose Catholic Primary (0.2 miles, Good, 72% reading, 79% maths); St Mary's CofE (VA) Primary School (0.4 miles, Requires improvement, 70% reading, 52% maths); Offmore Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 71% reading, 76% maths); and St Oswald's CofE Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 79% reading, 88% maths).
Each of them had higher 2025 results than St George's CofE School Kidderminster.
St Ambrose Catholic PrimarySt Mary's CofE (VA) Primary SchoolOffmore Primary SchoolSt Oswald's CofE Primary School
The trust
St George's CofE School Kidderminster is one of 8 schools run by The Black Pear Trust, an academy trust.
Across the trust's primary schools, 58% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.
Who goes there
43.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.
The largest ethnic groups are White British (46%), Asian (26%) and Black (10%).
Staffing
St George's CofE School Kidderminster had 12 teachers in 2026, one for every 16 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Kidderminster Rail Station, about 830 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Holy Trinity School (adjacent), 200 metres away.
The area around the school
In August 2026, police recorded 392 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Worcestershire (78), as is usual near a town centre.
Suspensions and exclusions
In 2024/25, St George's CofE School Kidderminster issued 11 suspensions, 5.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to St George's CofE School Kidderminster are Holy Trinity School (0.1 miles), King Charles I School (0.7 miles), Baxter College (1.3 miles) and Wolverley CofE Secondary School (1.8 miles).
Holy Trinity SchoolKing Charles I SchoolBaxter CollegeWolverley CofE Secondary School
Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; DfE multi-academy trust performance data; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; DfE school workforce census; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 years agoOverall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Ofsted's report, in its own words
What is it like to attend this school?
St George's is a warm and friendly school. The corridors beautifully celebrate the ethos of the school and the pupils' work. Staff know pupils and their families well. They look after pupils and make sure they feel safe and happy.
Pupils receive positive recognition when they demonstrate the school values through their everyday actions. They wear their 'star badges' with pride. Pupils understand that everyone is equal: 'We are all different, but we are all human'. This is evident in the way that they treat others in school.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
The school has adopted an ambitious curriculum that provides pupils with the knowledge and skills they need for the next stage of their education. The curriculum is carefully sequenced for all pupils, and assessment tasks help teachers to identify pupils who need additional support. However, some subjects have had more attention than others. This means that, sometimes, the work that pupils are asked to complete is not well matched to the intended learning.
Phonics is of the highest priority. Teaching begins in the Nursery Year, where children learn songs and rhymes and enjoy listening to stories. All staff have been trained well to teach phonics, and it is taught consistently well across all groups. Effective checking procedures quickly identify pupils who have fallen behind, which is then addressed swiftly. The books that pupils read match the sounds they have learned. This supports them in becoming confident, fluent readers by the end of Year 2. The school library has recently been refurbished. Pupils are encouraged to read a wide variety of books and are given opportunities to read in class. They are expected to use the vocabulary modelled by teachers, and they do.
From Ofsted's January 2024 inspection report: the opening paragraphs of each section, quoted word for word. Read the full report Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofsted Insights
Ofsted rated this school Good at its January 2024 inspection.
Rated Good for
Quality of education, Behaviour & attitudes, Personal development, Leadership & management, Early years.
At a Glance
31.8%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 70% to 48% (2024 to 2025). Maths has declined from 83% to 52% (2024 to 2025). Writing has declined from 83% to 58% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
23.9
Avg class size
28.7
Infant (KS1)
22.8
KS2
9
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
Latest from St George's CofE School Kidderminster
Newsletter September 2026
30 Sep 2026
Newsletter July 2026
17 Jul 2026
Newsletter June 2026
26 Jun 2026
Newsletter May 2026
22 May 2026
Newsletter April 2026
30 Apr 2026
Newsletter March 2026
30 Mar 2026
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Before and after school care
St George's CofE School Kidderminster is on the Department for Education's free breakfast clubs programme (list updated July 2026), which pays for a free breakfast club for pupils before school. Source: Free breakfast clubs: schools on the programme, Department for Education Free breakfast clubs in Worcestershire
Nurseries
The nearest nurseries and pre-schools to St George's CofE School Kidderminster, with their latest published grades:
- Little Trinity Ltd - Day nursery, 0.2 milesOfsted, 29 June 2023: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Rainbows Day Nursery Ltd - Day nursery, 0.4 milesOfsted, 22 January 2025: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Wise Owl Tuition - Day nursery, 0.4 miles
- Kiddy Winks Day Nursery - Day nursery, 0.7 milesOfsted report card, 21 April 2026: Needs attention in 6 areas; safeguarding standards met
- Mayfield House Kindergarten - Day nursery, 0.8 milesOfsted, 27 April 2022: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Free school transport
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 23
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 5
- Children hurt
- 7
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 23 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 18 slight.
7 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 4 on foot, 1 on a bicycle and 2 in a vehicle or otherwise.
4 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Worcestershire is 5.5 (the median across 276 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight are DfT estimates (severity adjustment). Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Commute and house prices
Your chances of a place at St George's CofE School Kidderminster
Will you get a place at St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
For 2026 entry it had 21 first choices for 21 places. The report sets your home postcode against these figures.
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
90%
Near capacity
188 pupils
210 places
22 spare places in 2025
2025, DfE school capacity data
Across Worcestershire council
Places available
6,801
Applications
5,492
Got 1st preference
94.0%
Got preferred school
99.0%
All primary applications across Worcestershire council (2026/27), not just this school.
This school: Every first choice offered
Future places in the local planning area
DfE estimates the Kidderminster East planning area (Worcestershire) will have 244 spare primary places in 2027/28.
Source: Department for Education, School capacity: Academic year 2024/25 (published 19 March 2026), estimates of future school place demand by planning area. Council pupil forecasts against reported places, counting places councils and DfE plan to add or remove; rounded to whole places. Explore Education Statistics
Inspection History(2)
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
28
SEN Support
10
EHC Plans
17.0%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
223
Total Pupils
105
Boys
118
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
12
Teachers
18.6:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£44,870
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£6,162
Per pupil
£1324k
Total funding
£102k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
4.8%
Overall absence
12.5%
Persistent absence
168
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
St George's CofE School Kidderminster
Questions parents ask about St George's CofE School Kidderminster
What are SATs results like at St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
Of the pupils at St George's CofE School Kidderminster who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 48% reached the expected standard in reading and 52% did so in maths.
What is St George's CofE School Kidderminster's Ofsted rating?
St George's CofE School Kidderminster was rated Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection in January 2024. At its previous graded inspection in 2019 it was rated Inadequate.
Is it hard to get a place at St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
St George's CofE School Kidderminster was not full in 2025: it ran at 90% of its 210 places.
How big are the classes at St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
Classes at St George's CofE School Kidderminster average 23.9 pupils (2025/26). 1 class has more than 30 pupils.
How many pupils go to St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
St George's CofE School Kidderminster has around 223 pupils on roll. 32% are eligible for free school meals.
What is attendance like at St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
4.8% of sessions were missed at St George's CofE School Kidderminster in 2024/25. 12.5% of pupils were persistently absent.
Does St George's CofE School Kidderminster have a breakfast club or after-school club?
St George's CofE School Kidderminster is on the Department for Education's free breakfast clubs programme (list updated July 2026).
How many road collisions happen near St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 23 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 18 slight. 7 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 4 on foot, 1 on a bicycle and 2 in a vehicle or otherwise. 4 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Worcestershire is 5.5 (the median across 276 schools, same distance and years).
Where is St George's CofE School Kidderminster?
St George's CofE School Kidderminster is at Birmingham Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10 2BX.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)