Church Preen Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Nr Much Wenlock, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.138 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Church Preen Primary School is a primary school in Nr Much Wenlock, Shropshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 June 2024. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Church Preen 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 | 2.138 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.138 miles away, the 30th shortest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 2 first-choice applications for 2 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 1 of the 10 applications came from outside Shropshire and received 0 offers.
- With 41 pupils on roll in January 2026, the school has 20.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Shropshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Shropshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Church Preen, Nr Much Wenlock, SY6 7LH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 41 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 18 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love learning at this small and friendly school.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to Church Preen Primary school because of its ‘family’ environment.”
- “An ethos of support, praise and encouragement nurtures all pupils and helps them to thrive.”
To improve
- “In some other subjects, the topic and lesson plans need more development.”
- “Some of these topic and lesson plans do not always help to build up pupils’ learning over time well.”
- “In a few instances, staff move pupils on before they are ready.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 2 first-preference applications, 2 offers in total, 2 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 Shropshire.
- Brockton CofE Primary School 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Longnor CofE Primary School 4.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Rushbury CofE Primary School 4.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Much Wenlock Primary School 4.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ Church Church of England Primary School 4.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Edward's CofE Primary School 5.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brown Clee CofE Primary School 6.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Lawrence CofE Primary School 6.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published