St John's Catholic Primary School, Trowbridge
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.629 miles
Published by Wiltshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
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St John's Catholic Primary School, Trowbridge is a primary school in Trowbridge, Wiltshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 23 November 2022. Wiltshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
St John's Catholic Primary School, Trowbridge 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 | 1.629 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 34 first-choice applications for 34 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.629 miles away, the 52nd shortest of 192 Wiltshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- There are 22.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.1 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wiltshire.
- In 2024/25, 55% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wiltshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Wingfield Road, Trowbridge, BA14 9EA
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wiltshire
- Pupils on roll
- 300 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 23 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud of their warm and caring school.”
- “They live out the school’s strong Catholic values in the way they treat one another and how they behave.”
- “They make sure that everyone is made to feel welcome.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, leaders have not identified the prior knowledge pupils need to help them learn well.”
- “Where this is the case, pupils do not learn the curriculum as well as they could.”
- “However, in key stage 1, books do not match the sounds pupils know well enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 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) | 55% | 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: 34 first-preference applications, 34 offers in total, 34 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 Wiltshire.
- Newtown Community Primary School 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Walwayne Court School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Studley Green Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willowbrook Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holbrook Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- The Grove Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bellefield Primary and Nursery School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Paxcroft Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published