Steyning CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Steyning, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Steyning CofE Primary School is a primary school in Steyning, West Sussex for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 4 October 2023. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Steyning CofE 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 58% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in West Sussex.
- Reception 2026 drew 31 first-choice applications for 31 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 120 of the 208 other West Sussex primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- 12.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 8.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Sussex.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Sussex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Shooting Field, Steyning, BN44 3RQ
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 335 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 4 October 2023
Strengths
- “This is a happy and successful school.”
- “Staff have high expectations of pupils, both in terms of what they can achieve and how they behave.”
- “Pupils rise to meet these expectations willingly and do well as a result.”
To improve
- “However, this assessment is not yet embedded in some foundation subjects, meaning that, sometimes, the school does not always have the same sense of how pupils are achieving in these subjects, or what they have remembered in the longer term.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 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) | 58% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 31 offers in total, 31 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 West Sussex.
- Upper Beeding Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ashurst CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 3.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE Primary School 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- North Lancing Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St John the Baptist CofE Primary School 3.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Ashington CofE Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Globe Primary Academy 4.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published