Five Ways Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Cannock, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2024

2.496 miles

Furthest distance (miles): "2.496" · Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2024

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Five Ways Primary School is a primary school in Cannock, Staffordshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Some aspects not as strong, from the inspection on 14 May 2025. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 entry.

Five Ways 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 2024	2.496 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

For Reception 2024, the last child offered a place lived 2.496 miles away, the 7th longest of 17 Staffordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.92 miles).
Reception 2026 had 60 first-choice applications for 75 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 15 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
In 2024/25, 52% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
The 2024/25 figure of 52% was the 2nd lowest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire that have results.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Langholm Drive, Heath Hayes, Cannock, WS12 2EZ
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 597 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 13.1% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 21.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Some aspects not as strong Inspected 14 May 2025

Strengths

“It is one big family where pupils are taught to be kind to each other.”
“Staff have strong relationships with pupils.”
“Staff set high expectations for how pupils should behave.”

To improve

“Recently, pupils have not achieved as highly as they should in mathematics.”
“However, some vulnerable pupils have not received the right support to enable them to meet the school’s high behaviour expectations.”
“However, in some subjects, staff do not consistently address these gaps.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 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)	52%	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: 60 first-preference applications, 75 offers in total, 60 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 Staffordshire.

Gorsemoor Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Heath Hayes Primary Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Chadsmoor Community Infants and Nursery School 1.2 mi Good
Chadsmoor CofE (VC) Junior School 1.3 mi School remains Good
Poppyfield Primary Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
Norton Canes Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published