Five Spires Academy

Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Lichfield, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2024

1.366 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2024

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Five Spires Academy is a primary school in Lichfield, Staffordshire for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 July 2023. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 entry.

Five Spires 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 2024	1.366 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

In Reception 2024, the last child offered a place lived 1.366 miles away, the 8th shortest of 17 Staffordshire primary schools with a published last distance.
For Reception 2026, there were 22 first-choice applications for 25 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
In 2024/25, 78% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%).

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Cherry Orchard, Lichfield, WS14 9AN
Type: Academy sponsor led
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 220 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 12.3% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 23.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 12 July 2023

Strengths

“Pupils are very happy at Five Spires Academy.”
“Their success and well-being are at that heart of leaders’ work.”
“Leaders live out the school’s mission of ‘everyone inspire, everyone aspire’ in all they do with pupils.”

To improve

“However, learning is not as well sequenced in a few subjects, where the organisation of the curriculum means that some pupils struggle to pick out some overarching themes.”
“This means that some pupils struggle to understand how their current learning fits in with what they have learned in the past.”
“However, on some occasions they do not pick up and address misconceptions quickly enough.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 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)	78%	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: 22 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 22 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 Staffordshire.

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Michael's CofE (C) Primary School 0.1 mi Standards maintained
St Chad's CofE Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
Scotch Orchard Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
Chadsmead Primary Academy 1.0 mi Not judged
Christ Church CofE (C) Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
Willows Primary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade