St Wilfrid's Catholic Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Stoke-on-Trent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1 miles
Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Wilfrid's Catholic Academy is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Stoke-on-Trent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Wilfrid's Catholic 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 | 1 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1 miles away, the 25th shortest of 67 Stoke-on-Trent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.38 miles).
- For Reception 2026 there were 41 first-choice applications for 45 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of pupils here, 39.7% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 51% across 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
- Queen's Avenue, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 6EE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Pupils on roll
- 343 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have high aspirations for all pupils at St Wilfrid’s.”
- “The school motto, ‘love one another as I have loved you’, is at the heart of leaders’ work.”
- “They enjoy coming to school and say that bullying is rare.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils do not always remember what they have learned in previous years.”
- “This is because they do not always have enough time to practise and revise what they have learned.”
- “However, there are still a minority of pupils who struggle to blend the sounds to read fluently.”
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) | 56% | 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: 41 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 41 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.
- Mill Hill Primary Academy 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Summerbank Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Saint Nathaniel's Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Moorpark Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- Jackfield Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Burnwood Primary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Star Academy, Sandyford 1.1 mi Good Last distance published