Highley Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Bridgnorth, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.497 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Highley Community Primary School is a primary school in Bridgnorth, Shropshire for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 March 2024. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Highley Community 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 | 0.497 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 2026 Reception, the last child offered a place lived 0.497 miles away, the 4th shortest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 4.25 miles).
- For 2026 Reception, there were 25 first-choice applications for 25 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 14th highest of 123 Shropshire primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 55% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 2nd lowest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Shropshire that have results.
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
- Grasmere Drive, Highley, Bridgnorth, WV16 6EH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 234 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 March 2024
Strengths
- “This provides pupils with many opportunities to engage with the community.”
- “It also enables them to contribute to society.”
- “Pupils speak of these activities with enthusiasm.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes adults do not teach pupils strategies to help them build their own independence.”
- “This means that some pupils are too reliant on adults during lessons.”
- “However, some pupils have gaps in their learning because of weaknesses in the school’s previous curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2024 (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) | 55% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 25 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.
- Alveley Primary School 1.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Kinlet CofE Primary School 2.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stottesdon CofE Primary School 4.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castlefields Primary School 5.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary School 5.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 6.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Farlow CofE Primary School 6.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Leonard's CofE Primary School 6.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published