Chancel Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Rugeley, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2025

0.606 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025

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Chancel Primary School is a primary school in Rugeley, Staffordshire for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 4 March 2025. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.

Chancel 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 2025	0.606 mi
Reception 2024	🔒 With a pass

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

What the figures show

In 2024/25, 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 19% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
In Reception 2025 the last child offered a place lived 0.606 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 27 Staffordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.79 miles).
Reception 2026 drew 27 first-choice applications for 27 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
17.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 28% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.

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: Wolseley Road, Rugeley, WS15 2EW
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–11
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 210 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 17.6% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.3

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

Ofsted

Not judged Inspected 4 March 2025

Strengths

“Pupils thrive and achieve well at this happy and nurturing school.”
“The school is ambitious and wants the very best for pupils.”
“Pupils are at the heart of everything.”

To improve

“Although pupils achieve well in mathematics, as seen in the school’s published outcomes, pupils have fewer opportunities to strengthen their reasoning and problem-solving skills.”
“In some lessons, the key knowledge that pupils need to learn is not succinctly and clearly identified.”
“This leads to some confusion, disengagement and hinders their progress.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 April 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)	72%	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: 27 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 27 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.

Forest Hills Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
Churchfield CofE Primary Academy 0.5 mi Good
The John Bamford Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good
Etching Hill CofE Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Chase View Community Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
The St. Mary's CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published