Russell Street School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Milton Keynes
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.249 miles
Published by Milton Keynes City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Russell Street School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 19 September 2023. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Russell Street 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 | 2.249 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 2.249 miles away, the 2nd longest of 9 Milton Keynes primary schools with a published last distance.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 3 of the 5 years with a published outcome, and the 2026 last distance was further than in 2023.
- Reception 2026 had 61 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- 17 of the 132 applications (13%) for Reception 2026 came from families living outside Milton Keynes; 6 offers went to them.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Milton Keynes schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Russell Street, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, MK11 1BT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 192 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish at this exceptional school.”
- “This is a lively, happy and safe place where pupils develop curiosity and a love of learning.”
- “The environment around the school is carefully considered to capture pupils’ interest.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 61 first-preference applications, 60 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 Milton Keynes.
- St Mary and St Giles Church of England School 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greenleys First School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Fairfields Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Greenleys Junior School 1.5 mi Good
- Wyvern School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Watling Primary School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bushfield School 1.9 mi Good