St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.352 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Coventry for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 January 2023. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Mary and St Benedict Catholic 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 | 0.352 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.352 miles away, the 4th shortest of 79 Coventry primary schools with a published last distance.
- In Reception 2026 there were 47 first-choice applications for 45 offers, with 45 offers going to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families not offered a place.
- Reading, writing and maths 2024/25: 63% met the expected standard (England 62%), the 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Coventry.
- The school has 19.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 23.3 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
- Leigh Street, Hillfields, Coventry, CV1 5HG
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 345 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 January 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders and staff care strongly about pupils and know them as individuals.”
- “This helps build positive relationships and means that pupils are confident in talking to staff.”
- “For example, if bullying occurs or pupils have a concern, pupils are confident to tell staff, who resolve issues quickly.”
To improve
- “Pupils achieve well, although they achieve less well in writing than in reading and mathematics.”
- “However, staff do not do enough to support all pupils to take pride in their achievements.”
- “As a result, some pupils’ work is often poorly presented and untidy.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 March 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) | 63% | 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: 47 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 45 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.
- Sidney Stringer Primary Academy 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Southfields Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- John Gulson Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Frederick Bird Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gosford Park Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Broad Heath Community Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stoke Primary School 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published