St Andrew's CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–11 · Shifnal, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.185 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Andrew's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Shifnal, Shropshire for ages 5–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 June 2023. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Andrew's 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 | 1.185 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 1.185 miles away, the 18th shortest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The Reception last distance offered in 2026 was nearer the school than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 60 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (3%) were not offered a place.
- 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Park Lane, Shifnal, TF11 9HD
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 398 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 June 2023
Strengths
- “The core values of ‘respect, friendship and perseverance’ permeate through the school.”
- “Pupils, staff, parents and carers are proud of their school, which sits at the heart of the local community.”
- “Pupils typically describe the school as having a calm atmosphere where each day runs smoothly.”
To improve
- “However, despite recent changes to methods of communication with parents, they would like to be better informed about the curriculum that pupils will be taught and how successfully they are learning.”
- “However, in a few subjects, the curriculum is not sequenced effectively to build on pupils’ knowledge from year to year.”
- “In addition, checks on pupils’ learning are not as well thought through.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 July 2023 (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) | 72% | 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: 60 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- Shifnal Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sheriffhales Primary School and Preschool 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Beckbury Church of England Primary School and Nursery 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Albrighton Primary School & Nursery 4.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE Primary School 4.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broseley CofE Primary School 5.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- John Wilkinson Primary School and Nursery 5.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barrow 1618 CofE Free School 7.1 mi Good Last distance published