Dingle Community Primary School
Madeley Road, Kingswinford, DY6 8PF
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 5 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Ms Nichola Heather
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 210
- Pupils on roll
- 188
- URN
- 103829
- Local authority
- Dudley
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01384283699
About this school
Dingle Community Primary School is a community primary school in Kingswinford. It teaches children aged 5 to 11 and has 188 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 30 | 30 | 24 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 53% | 50% | 67% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 7% | 7% | 8% |
| Expected standard in reading | 70% | 60% | 75% |
| Expected standard in maths | 63% | 60% | 75% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 70% | 70% | 67% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 105.0 | 104.0 | 106.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 102.0 | 101.0 | 103.0 |
| Reading progress | -0.80 | - | - |
| Writing progress | +0.60 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -1.10 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Dingle Community Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Dudley average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 53% | 52.8% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 50% | 54.4% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 67% | 59.1% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 6.8% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 5.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 5.7% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 193 |
| 2023/24 | 182 |
| 2024/25 | 177 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Dingle Community Primary School compares
Dingle Community Primary School ranked 28th of 76 primary schools in Dudley for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 57% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 43% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 67% | 5.7% | 19.8% | 188 | — |
| Bromley Hills Primary School | 54% | 5.7% | 27% | 282 | 0.4 miles |
| Crestwood Park Primary School | 63% | 5.6% | 26.3% | 210 | 0.4 miles |
| Hawbush Primary School | 58% | 7.4% | 55.6% | 214 | 0.6 miles |
| Fairhaven Primary School | 60% | 5.7% | 18% | 251 | 0.7 miles |
| The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School | 68% | 6.8% | 51.8% | 243 | 0.8 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 19.77%
- English as an additional language
- 6.2%
- Overall absence
- 5.72%
- Persistent absence
- 16.67%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Bromley Hills Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · Kingswinford
-
Crestwood Park Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · Kingswinford
-
Hawbush Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Brierley Hill
-
Fairhaven Primary School0.7 miles
Primary · Stourbridge
-
The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School0.8 miles
Primary · Brierley Hill
Other schools in Kingswinford
Dingle Community Primary School ranks 5th of the 9 ranked primary schools in Kingswinford.
- Blanford Mere Primary School Primary
- Bromley Hills Primary School Primary
- Church of the Ascension CofE Primary School Primary
- Crestwood Park Primary School Primary
- Dawley Brook Primary School Primary
- Glynne Primary School Primary
- Maidensbridge Primary School Primary
- St Mary's CofE Primary School Primary
- Kingswinford Academy Secondary
- Summerhill School Secondary
- The Brier School Academies
Common questions
- What year groups does Dingle Community Primary School teach?
- Dingle Community Primary School teaches children aged 5 to 11. It is a primary school in Kingswinford.
- Who is the headteacher of Dingle Community Primary School?
- The headteacher of Dingle Community Primary School is Ms Nichola Heather, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Dingle Community Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Dingle Community Primary School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Dingle Community Primary School?
- Dingle Community Primary School has 188 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 5 to 11.
- Is Dingle Community Primary School full?
- Dingle Community Primary School has capacity for 210 pupils and 188 on roll (90%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Dingle Community Primary School a faith school?
- No. Dingle Community Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Dingle Community Primary School have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Dingle Community Primary School as having no nursery classes.
- How have Dingle Community Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 53% in 2022/23 and 67% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Dingle Community Primary School rank locally?
- Dingle Community Primary School ranked 28th of 76 primary schools in Dudley for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 57% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 43% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Dingle Community Primary School's absence rate?
- Dingle Community Primary School's overall absence rate is 5.7% in the latest published census, at or below the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Dingle Community Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Dingle Community Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 29 June 2026.