The Marches School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Oswestry, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
14.165 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Marches School is a secondary school in Oswestry, Shropshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 September 2023. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
The Marches 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 14.165 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 2026: the last child offered a place lived 14.165 miles away, the 5th longest of the 19 Shropshire secondary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- For Year 7, the last distance offered in 2026 was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2023, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 197 first-choice applications for 204 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 39% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Shropshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Morda Road, Oswestry, SY11 2AR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,346 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 September 2023
Strengths
- “Most pupils and all students in the school’s sixth form, enjoy coming to school.”
- “Relationships with staff are respectful and trusting.”
- “Pupils feel safe and are well cared for.”
To improve
- “However, a small number of pupils feel that they are not always kept informed about the actions leaders take when they report a bullying incident.”
- “Nonetheless, following a period of significant staffing issues, results in national tests at the end of Year 11 do not yet reflect these positive features of the curriculum.”
- “Furthermore, very occasionally plans are not implemented well enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 39% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 43.1 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 197 first-preference applications, 204 offers in total, 197 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Shropshire.
- Lakelands Academy 7.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Corbet School 9.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Thomas Adams School 13.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Mary Webb School and Science College 16.1 mi Good Last distance published
- The Priory School 16.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Shrewsbury Academy 16.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Meole Brace School 16.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Belvidere School 17.3 mi Not judged Last distance published