Spon Gate Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
8.629 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Spon Gate Primary School is a primary school in Coventry for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 April 2023. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Spon Gate 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 | 8.629 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 46% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Coventry.
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 8.629 miles away, 3rd longest of 79 Coventry primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.52 miles).
- The 2026 Reception distance was further than in 2025, the biggest move between years, and every applicant was offered a place in 1 of the 3 years with a published outcome.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 51.8% of pupils, against a middle figure of 25.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Coventry.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Coventry schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Upper Spon Street, Coventry, CV1 3BQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 224 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 51.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 April 2023
Strengths
- “So do their parents and teachers.”
- “Pupils are enthusiastic, polite and welcoming.”
- “They care about each other and value their learning.”
To improve
- “However, leaders have identified that they need to provide more opportunities for pupils to explain their understanding in written responses with greater skill.”
- “However, for some subjects, leaders do not identify or use end of unit assessment opportunities well enough to help them to know what pupils can do well and what they need to learn next.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 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) | 46% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 22 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 Coventry.
- St Osburg's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Moseley Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hearsall Community Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Earlsdon Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- All Souls' Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Radford Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Sidney Stringer Primary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ The King Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published