Newport Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Newport, Telford and Wrekin
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Telford & Wrekin Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Newport Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Newport, Telford and Wrekin for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2023. Telford and Wrekin has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Newport Infant School and Nursery 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 46 first-choice applications for 50 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The published admission number for Reception 2027 is 90 places, against the 50 offers made for Reception 2026.
- 16.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, above the middle figure of 11.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Telford and Wrekin.
- There are 21.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 25.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Telford and Wrekin.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Telford and Wrekin schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Granville Avenue, Newport, TF10 7DX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Telford and Wrekin
- Pupils on roll
- 217 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and well cared for at Newport Infant School and Nursery.”
- “From the very beginning, children feel that they belong to one big family.”
- “This shows how important each pupil is within this family.”
To improve
- “However, in other subjects, such as mathematics, this is not the case.”
- “The small steps of knowledge have not been clearly and precisely identified in key stage 1.”
- “This means that individual class teachers make decisions about what to teach and when for their own classes.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 46 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 46 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 Telford and Wrekin.
- Newport Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School 0.2 mi Good
- Moorfield Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Church Aston Infant School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Controlled Primary School and Nursery 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lilleshall Primary School 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Muxton Primary School 3.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Donnington Wood Infant School and Nursery Centre 4.1 mi Good Last distance published