Sidney Stringer Primary Academy
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.569 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sidney Stringer Primary Academy is a primary school in Coventry for ages 4–11 (free schools). Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Sidney Stringer 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 | 0.569 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.569 miles, the 15th shortest of 79 Coventry primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.52 miles).
- That Reception distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 71 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families, and 13 first-choice families (18%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 69% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Coventry.
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
- Bath Street, Coventry, CV1 5GU
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 416 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 45.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 18 November 2025
Strengths
- “Sidney Stringer Primary Academy is an inclusive school where pupils flourish.”
- “They receive an excellent start to their education.”
- “There is a collective vision to ensure pupils 'believe, achieve and succeed'.”
To improve
- “Leaders and those responsible for governance should sustain the effectiveness of their work in all areas.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2026 (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) | 69% | 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: 71 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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 Coventry.
- St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- John Gulson Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Southfields Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Frederick Bird Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broad Heath Community Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Osburg's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Gosford Park Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Radford Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published