Ashurst CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Steyning, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
8.87 miles
Published by West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ashurst CofE Primary School is a primary school in Steyning, West Sussex for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 24 September 2024. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Ashurst 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 | 8.87 mi |
| 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 8.87 miles away, the 2nd longest of 87 West Sussex primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 9 first-choice applications for 8 offers; all 8 went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (11%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in West Sussex.
- With 48 pupils on roll in January 2026, there were 11.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.7 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
- School Lane, Ashurst, Steyning, BN44 3AY
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 48 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 11.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 24 September 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this village school.”
- “They are happy and build strong relationships with each other.”
- “Pupils know that staff are there to help and support them, and they know who to turn to if they have any worries.”
To improve
- “In a small number of areas, such as writing and early years, the school is still in the process of improving its curriculum.”
- “The early years curriculum has ambitious end points, but the sequence of learning is not as well thought through as it could be.”
- “Work is ongoing to ensure small steps of knowledge are identified and sequenced so that learning builds cumulatively over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 November 2024 (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) | 70% | 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: 9 first-preference applications, 8 offers in total, 8 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.
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Jolesfield CofE Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Steyning CofE Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ashington CofE Primary School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Upper Beeding Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shipley CofE Primary School 4.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE (Aided) Primary School 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published