Stratford St Mary Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Nr Colchester, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
4.564 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Stratford St Mary Primary School is a primary school in Nr Colchester, Suffolk for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 November 2023. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Stratford St Mary 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 | 4.564 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 4.564 miles away, the 3rd longest of 19 Suffolk primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 11 first-choice applications for 12 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Of 29 applications in the Reception 2026 entry, 5 (17%) came from families living outside Suffolk, and 1 offer went to them.
- In 2024/25, 80% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 20% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Suffolk schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Stratford St Mary, Nr Colchester, CO7 6YG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 88 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this friendly, community school.”
- “From Reception, they benefit from an interesting and engaging curriculum.”
- “Pupils are challenged by the adults to think deeply about important content.”
To improve
- “In a small minority of subjects, curriculum plans do not outline in sufficient detail what pupils in mixed-age classes need to know.”
- “Therefore, in some subjects, pupils in different year groups are given the same work as each other.”
- “This means that the older pupils are not always given enough opportunities to use and apply what they know with as much rigour as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 December 2023 (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) | 80% | 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: 11 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 11 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 Suffolk.
- East Bergholt Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Capel St Mary Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 3.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stoke-by-Nayland Church of England Primary School 3.9 mi Good
- Brooklands Primary School 4.1 mi Good
- Nayland Primary School 4.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bentley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 4.8 mi School remains Good
- Hadleigh Community Primary School 4.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Hadleigh 5.1 mi Standards maintained