Castle Hill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.42 miles
Published by Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Castle Hill Primary School is a primary school in Gloucester, Gloucestershire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 29 April 2025. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Castle Hill 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 | 3.42 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 7 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last Reception place for 2026 went to a child living 3.42 miles away, 18th longest of 88 Gloucestershire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That 2026 Reception distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2012, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 15 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 29 first-choice applications for 30 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Abbotswood Road, Brockworth, Gloucester, GL3 4NU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 211 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 29 April 2025
Strengths
- “Castle Hill primary is a friendly and welcoming community.”
- “The school’s vision, ‘Do with not for’, underpins its approach of working together in the best interests of everyone in the school community.”
- “The school has a calm and purposeful atmosphere.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, in a few subjects, the school is refining the curriculum.”
- “In these subjects, the curriculum and its delivery does not help pupils to build their knowledge securely.”
- “This means pupils do not recall their previous learning and build on what they already know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 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) | 61% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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 Gloucestershire.
- Lift Brockworth 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Coopers Edge School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Upton St Leonards Church of England Primary School 1.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Abbeymead Primary School 1.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Shurdington Church of England Primary School 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dinglewell Infant School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dinglewell Junior School 2.0 mi School remains Good
- Lift Hillview 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
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