Welshampton CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–11 · Ellesmere, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
8.484 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Welshampton CofE Primary School is a primary school in Ellesmere, Shropshire for ages 5–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 April 2024. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Welshampton 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 | 8.484 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 for 2026 lived 8.484 miles away, the 17th longest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 12 first-choice applications for 12 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 38% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% 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
- Stocks Lane, Welshampton, Ellesmere, SY12 0PG
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 71 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 April 2024
Strengths
- “Welshampton is a small and nurturing school.”
- “Staff care deeply about the pupils they teach, and quickly build good relationships with pupils and their families.”
- “The school is committed to ensuring that every pupil does well.”
To improve
- “However, older pupils have gaps in their knowledge, which impacts their ability to achieve the ambitious end points of the new curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 May 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) | 38% | 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: 12 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 12 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.
- Ellesmere Primary School 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Newtown CofE Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cockshutt CofE Primary School and Nursery 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Criftins CofE Primary School and Nursery 4.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whixall CofE Primary School 4.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Weston Lullingfields Church of England Primary School and Nursery 5.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 6.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Whittington CofE (VA) Primary School 7.1 mi Not judged Last distance published