Newtown CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 2–11 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.077 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Newtown CofE Primary School is a primary school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for ages 2–11 (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.
Newtown 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 | 3.077 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 3.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Shropshire.
- Reception 2026 had 14 first-choice applications for 14 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 25% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the lowest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 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
- Newtown, Wem, Shrewsbury, SY4 5NU
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 86 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 14 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy being part of this caring and welcoming school.”
- “They know that each member of staff cares about them as individuals.”
- “The school’s high expectations for all pupils and vision for pupils to ‘let your light shine’ are being realised.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils still have gaps in their knowledge due to the curriculum being new.”
- “As a result, their learning does not build on what they already know.”
- “However, they are not yet consistently adept enough in using all this information to deliver lessons as intended.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 February 2025 (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) | 25% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 14 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.
- Whixall CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Cockshutt CofE Primary School and Nursery 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Welshampton CofE Primary School 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Weston Lullingfields Church of England Primary School and Nursery 4.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Myddle CofE Primary School 4.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Prees CofE Primary School 5.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Clive CofE Primary School 5.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published