Kinlet CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Kinlet, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.266 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kinlet CofE Primary School is a primary school in Kinlet, Shropshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 14 January 2025. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Kinlet CofE 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 | 4.266 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 4.266 miles away, 61st longest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle 4.25 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 7 first-choice applications for 7 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; Reception 2027 has a published admission number of 11 places.
- There were 41 pupils on roll in January 2026 and 13.7 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.5 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
- School Lane, Bewdley, Kinlet, DY12 3BG
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 41 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 14 January 2025
Strengths
- “Kinlet is a calm, happy school, where pupils feel safe and value the friendships that they make.”
- “Staff use these to build a culture where pupils ‘love to learn, learn to love’.”
- “They enjoy the trips and experiences that the school has started to introduce.”
To improve
- “However, the school is still working to establish a sufficiently ambitious curriculum.”
- “Currently, the quality of education that some pupils receive requires further improvement.”
- “As a result, pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), do not know and remember what they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 7 first-preference applications, 7 offers in total, 7 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.
- Highley Community Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stottesdon CofE Primary School 3.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Alveley Primary School 4.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cleobury Mortimer Primary School 4.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Farlow CofE Primary School 4.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Castlefields Primary School 7.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary School 8.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 8.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published