St Briavels Parochial Church of England Primary School

Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Lydney, Gloucestershire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

Every applicant was offered a place

From Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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St Briavels Parochial Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Lydney, Gloucestershire for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 April 2022. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.

St Briavels Parochial Church of England 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	Every applicant was offered a place
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

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

6.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 32.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gloucestershire.
Reception 2026 had 9 first-choice applications for 10 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out in all 3 earlier years with a published outcome: 2022, 2023 and 2024.
In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% 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: High Street, St Briavel's, Lydney, GL15 6TD
Type: Voluntary aided school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Religious character: Church of England
Council: Gloucestershire
Pupils on roll: 148 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 6.8% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 21.8

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 27 April 2022

Strengths

“Pupils at St Briavels are proud of their school.”
“They are polite, respectful and welcoming.”
“Pupils enjoy the wide range of curriculum subjects on offer.”

To improve

“However, because the curriculum developments are in their infancy, there are some inconsistencies in approaches that teachers use.”
“Leaders’ monitoring is not yet sufficiently robust to make sure that there is a consistent approach to the implementation of the curriculum across all classes.”
“However, teachers do not use assessment consistently well in the foundation subjects in key stage 1 and 2 in order to check what pupils know or to adapt teaching when necessary.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 June 2022 (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)	63%	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: 9 first-preference applications, 10 offers in total, 9 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.

Clearwell Church of England Primary School 2.3 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
Bream Church of England Primary School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
Ellwood Primary School 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Woolaston Primary School 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
Redbrook Church of England Primary School 3.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Aylburton Church of England Primary School 3.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St John's C of E Academy 4.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Coalway Primary School 4.2 mi Good Last distance published