Holy Family Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.51 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holy Family Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Coventry for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 June 2023. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Holy Family Catholic 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 | 1.51 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
- Reception 2026 drew 79 first-choice applications for 59 offers, which is 1.3 first choices per offer and the highest of 84 Coventry primary schools.
- In 2026, 57 Reception offers went to first-choice families and 22 first-choice families (28%) were not offered a place; the last child offered lived 1.51 miles away.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% 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
- Holy Family Catholic Primary, Penny Park Lane, Coventry, CV6 2GU
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 459 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this friendly and welcoming school.”
- “From the early years, children learn to play and work well together.”
- “Pupils feel happy and safe knowing that other pupils are kind and caring.”
To improve
- “There is further work to do to ensure that teachers know exactly what to teach and when to teach it.”
- “Work has started on this, but it is not fully embedded.”
- “In addition, in some subjects, teachers do not always use assessment strategies well to check what pupils know and have remembered.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2023 (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) | 66% | 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: 79 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 57 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.
- Parkgate Primary School 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Whitmore Park Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- John Shelton Community Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Keresley Grange Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holbrook Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hill Farm Academy 1.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Joseph Cash Primary School 1.3 mi Improved significantly Last distance published