Heron Cross Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Stoke-on-Trent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.69 miles
Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Heron Cross Primary School is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for ages 3–11 (community school). Stoke-on-Trent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Heron Cross 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 | 0.69 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.69 miles away, the 17th shortest of 67 Stoke-on-Trent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025.
- Reception 2026 had 34 first-choice applications for 38 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 59% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Grove Road, Heron Cross, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 4LJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Pupils on roll
- 396 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 43.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 20 January 2026
Strengths
- “Heron Cross Primary School is a welcoming and inclusive school where pupils thrive.”
- “From the moment pupils join the school, including those who start at different points in their education, staff take time to get to know them well.”
- “As a result, pupils feel safe, valued and well cared for.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, teachers do not focus consistently on the key knowledge pupils need to learn.”
- “Where this happens, pupils’ understanding is not as secure as it should be.”
- “Leaders continue to focus on embedding recent changes and refining areas of the school’s work further, particularly in aspects of the writing and mathematics curriculums.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 March 2026 (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) | 59% | 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: 34 first-preference applications, 38 offers in total, 34 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.
- Our Lady's Catholic Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Glebe 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- The Meadows Primary Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stoke Minster CofE Primary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sutherland Primary Academy 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE (C) Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published