Seal Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Selsey, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.51 miles
Published by West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Seal Primary Academy is a primary school in Selsey, West Sussex for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 October 2023. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Seal Primary Academy 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 | 0.51 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
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.51 miles away, the 12th shortest of 87 West Sussex primary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2026, Reception had 38 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families and 8 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), but 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 18.3 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Sussex is 22.
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
- East Street, Selsey, PO20 0BN
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 294 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils in this highly ambitious school are taught to ‘aspire, believe and achieve’.”
- “Pupils play well together, treating each other kindly and saying: ‘If someone hasn’t got a smile today, give them one of yours.’”
- “Pupils behave exceptionally well.”
To improve
- “Some curriculum areas are not as well established as others, and here, the activities teachers use do not always help pupils understand and remember what they are learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 December 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) | 64% | 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: 38 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Medmerry Primary School 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sidlesham Primary School 2.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- East Wittering Community Primary School 4.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rose Green Infant School 4.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rose Green Junior School 4.6 mi Outstanding
- Birdham CE Primary School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Nyewood CofE Junior School 5.6 mi School remains Good
- Nyewood CofE Infant School 5.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published