Stiperstones CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Bishops Castle, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.905 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Stiperstones CofE Primary School is a primary school in Bishops Castle, Shropshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next, from the inspection on 5 June 2024. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Stiperstones 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 | 3.905 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 3.905 miles away, the 54th shortest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 2 first-choice applications for 2 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the published admission number for Reception 2027 is 7 places.
- With 25 pupils on roll in January 2026, there are 13.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Shropshire.
- 16% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Shropshire is 20.2%.
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
- Norbury, Bishops Castle, SY9 5EA
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 25 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Inspected 5 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to this warm, caring and inclusive school.”
- “They understand the school ethos of taking a risk ‘to be the best person you can be’ and enthusiastically explain how they and their friends strive to do this daily.”
- “Older pupils support younger children as a matter of course and all pupils have great confidence in the adults around them.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 2 first-preference applications, 2 offers in total, 2 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.
- Norbury Primary School and Nursery 0.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bishops Castle Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Lydbury North Church of England Primary School 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Lawrence CofE Primary School 5.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wistanstow CofE Primary School 5.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stokesay Primary School 7.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Clunbury CofE Primary School 7.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Minsterley Primary School 7.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published