Seva School
All-through · Free schools · Ages 4–16 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
12.697 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Year 7 2026: Every applicant was offered a place
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Seva School is an all-through school in Coventry for ages 4–16 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 29 November 2022. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Seva 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 | 12.697 mi |
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 2 earlier figures.
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 12.697 miles from the school, further than in 2025, and the distance has swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 27 first-choice applications for 28 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In Reception 2026, 9 of the 44 applications (20%) came from families living outside Coventry, and 8 offers went to them.
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
- Link House, Eden Road, Walsgrave Triangle, Coventry, CV2 2TB
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 4–16
- Religious character
- Sikh
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 736 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 29 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils benefit from attending a welcoming and inclusive school.”
- “The Seva virtues of kindness, courage, honesty, tolerance, respect and responsibility are woven into the curriculum and understood by everyone.”
- “Leaders have high expectations of all pupils and expect them to work hard and achieve their best.”
To improve
- “However, for some pupils at earlier stages of learning to read, the books that they take home are not always matched to the sounds that they know.”
- “This may slow their progress in learning to read.”
- “However, this approach is not consistent across the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 January 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) | 70% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 43% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 44.4 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 27 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 27 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 62 first-preference applications, 69 offers in total, 62 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Coventry.
- Castle Wood Special School 1.1 mi Requires improvement
- Coventry Alternative Provision Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Lote Tree Primary School 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Pattison College 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Park View 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Riverbank School 2.9 mi School remains Outstanding
- Inspired Pathways 3.8 mi School remains Good
- Bablake School 3.9 mi No Ofsted grade