Harpfield Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Stoke-on-Trent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.461 miles
Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Harpfield Primary Academy is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Improved significantly, from the inspection on 6 November 2024. Stoke-on-Trent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Harpfield 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 | 3.461 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 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 3.461 miles away, the 8th longest of 67 Stoke-on-Trent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Of its pupils, 22.1% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 41.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
- In 2026 there were 30 first-choice applications for 30 Reception offers, every first-choice family was offered a place, and the last distance was further than in 2025.
- 67% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Stoke-on-Trent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Palmers Green, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6AP
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Pupils on roll
- 226 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Improved significantly Inspected 6 November 2024
Strengths
- “This is a friendly and welcoming school with a real family ethos.”
- “The many pupils who join at different points in the school year quickly settle in to the ‘Harpfield way.”
- “The school aims high for all pupils to achieve and behave well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 2024 (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) | 67% | 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: 30 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 Stoke-on-Trent.
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's CofE (A) Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Willows Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Etruscan Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stoke Minster CofE Primary Academy 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oakhill Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Waterside Primary School 2.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published