Whitestone Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.017 miles
Published by Warwickshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Whitestone Infant School is a primary school in Nuneaton, Warwickshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 September 2023. Warwickshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2026 entry.
Whitestone Infant 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 | 3.017 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last place offered went to a child 3.017 miles away, the 72nd longest of 176 Warwickshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.26 miles).
- Last distances have swung sharply, most from 2023 to 2024; the 2026 Reception figure was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2020.
- For Reception 2026 there were 66 first-choice applications for 89 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 23 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 12.6% and pupils per teacher 30.1, against middle figures of 36.6% and 22.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Warwickshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warwickshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Magyar Crescent, Nuneaton, CV11 4SQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Warwickshire
- Pupils on roll
- 269 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 30.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 September 2023
Strengths
- “Everyone lives out the school’s motto of ‘Hand in hand we learn’ at this welcoming and nurturing school.”
- “Pupils say adults listen to them and support them if they have worries.”
- “Pupils talk about how kind the teachers are.”
To improve
- “However, while pupils can remember what they have done, they cannot always recall important information.”
- “This is because, in some subjects, activities do not give pupils chance to embed their learning.”
- “However, in some subjects, staff do not always have a clear picture of what pupils already know and what they can do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 October 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 66 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 66 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 Warwickshire.
- Chetwynd Junior School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- All Saints CofE Primary School and Nursery, Nuneaton 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wembrook Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Middlemarch School 1.5 mi Not judged
- Our Lady & St. Joseph Catholic Academy 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Arden Forest Infant School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Michael's Church of England Academy 1.7 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Chilvers Coton Community Infant School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
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