Wyken Croft Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.508 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wyken Croft Primary School is a primary school in Coventry for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 5 November 2024. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Wyken Croft 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 | 4.508 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 place for 2026 lived 4.508 miles away, the 10th longest of 79 Coventry primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2024, and it was the longest of the 3 years, after swinging sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 102 first-choice applications for 108 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 62% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Coventry.
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
- Wyken Croft, Wyken, Coventry, CV2 3AA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 899 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 5 November 2024
Strengths
- “Wyken Croft is a place where everybody cares about each other.”
- “Despite being a large school, pupils and parents feel they belong to a close family.”
- “Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive high-quality support and are included in all aspects of school life.”
To improve
- “The school is working to improve how it teaches reading to support pupils to achieve better in this subject.”
- “There is more work to do to realise this ambition.”
- “However, in some subjects, some pupils are unable to recall their prior learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 January 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) | 62% | 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: 102 first-preference applications, 108 offers in total, 102 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.
- St John Fisher Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Henley Green Primary 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Walsgrave Church of England Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Ravensdale Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pearl Hyde Community Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Richard Lee Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published