Holbrook Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.74 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holbrook Primary School is a primary school in Coventry for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Holbrook Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 2.74 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception 2026 place lived 2.74 miles away, further from the school than in 2025.
- At 2.74 miles, it was the 22nd longest of the 79 Coventry primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 1.52 miles.
- Reception 2026 drew 37 first-choice applications for 41 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 41% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Coventry schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Gateside Road, Coventry, CV6 6FR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 608 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “Holbrook Primary school is a welcoming, inclusive school at the heart of the diverse community it serves.”
- “The school creates a nurturing environment where pupils are encouraged to ‘work together to be the BEST’.”
- “Pupils live up to these high expectations.”
To improve
- “However, the written work in pupils’ books is not always of a high quality.”
- “Sometimes, writing activities do not ensure that pupils extend their writing skills across other subjects of the curriculum.”
- “Historically, some pupils have not attended school as regularly as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 41% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 37 first-preference applications, 41 offers in total, 37 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Coventry.
- Edgewick Community Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Little Heath Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Good Shepherd Catholic School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Longford Park Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Laurences CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Joseph Cash Primary School 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- John Shelton Community Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published