St Lucia's CofE Primary School & Nursery
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 2–11 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
9.452 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Lucia's CofE Primary School & Nursery is a primary school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for ages 2–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 February 2024. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Lucia's CofE Primary School & 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 | 9.452 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 Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 9.452 miles away, the 13th longest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 4.25 miles).
- In 2024/25, 83% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 17% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, 5 of the 35 applications (14%) came from families living outside Shropshire, and 3 offers went to them.
- 5.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 35.3% 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
- Upton Magna, Shrewsbury, SY4 4TZ
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 126 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and well cared for at St Lucia’s C of E Primary School and Nursery.”
- “They look forward to coming to school.”
- “Most pupils achieve well here.”
To improve
- “However, this is not the case in writing.”
- “The school has not clearly set out the specific subject knowledge it wants pupils to learn over time.”
- “As a result, not all pupils are achieving their full potential.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 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) | 83% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 21 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.
- Belvidere Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Giles CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Crowmoor Primary School 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wilfred Owen Primary School 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Mereside Church of England Primary Academy 2.9 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Harlescott Junior School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Sundorne Infant School and Nursery 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Martin Wilson School 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published