The Willows Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Stoke-on-Trent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.207 miles
Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Willows Primary School is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 10 June 2025. Stoke-on-Trent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
The Willows 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 | 1.207 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 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 1.207 miles away, further from the school than in 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 72 first-choice applications for 76 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 73% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
- There are 28 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Stoke-on-Trent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Greatbatch Avenue, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7JY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Pupils on roll
- 689 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 28
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 10 June 2025
Strengths
- “The Willows Primary School is a warm and nurturing school where pupils thrive.”
- “The school’s vision of ‘Explore, dream and discover’ is realised through the vast array of experiences that pupils have access to.”
- “Most pupils achieve successfully in a broad range of subjects.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the school does not have a consistently effective approach to check how well pupils have learned over time.”
- “Consequently, some pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), do not achieve as well as they could in some subjects.”
- “Children currently have limited opportunities to engage in activities that promote their physical development, so they are not continuing to develop as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 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) | 73% | 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: 72 first-preference applications, 76 offers in total, 72 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 Stoke-on-Trent.
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's CofE (A) Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stoke Minster CofE Primary Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Harpfield Primary Academy 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Oakhill Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Etruscan Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Academy 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published