The Howard Primary School

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Tamworth, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2025

Every applicant was offered a place

From Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025

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The Howard Primary School is a primary school in Tamworth, Staffordshire for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 March 2024. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.

The Howard Primary 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 2025	Every applicant was offered a place
Reception 2024	🔒 With a pass

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

What the figures show

For Reception in 2025, every applicant was offered a place; 0 of the 40 other Staffordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome also did the same.
For Reception in 2024, the earlier year with a published outcome, places ran out and a last distance was published.
For Reception in 2026, there were 13 first-choice applications for 13 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
In 2024/25, 50% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).

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: The Square, Elford, Tamworth, B79 9DB
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–11
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 79 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 7.6% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 16.8

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 12 March 2024

Strengths

“The Howard Primary School is at the heart of its community.”
“They are proud of their school and attend regularly.”
“Pupils aspire to live the school’s ethos of ‘believe and achieve’.”

To improve

“However, at times, the delivery of the curriculum is not always adapted well to meet the needs of pupils, including some of those with SEND.”
“When this happens, pupils do not learn and remember the curriculum as well as they could.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 April 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)	50%	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: 13 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 13 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.

Mary Howard Church of England Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged
Whittington Primary and Nursery School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade
St Stephen's Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good
All Saints Church of England Primary and Nursery School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade
St Leonard's CofE (A) Primary School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
Streethay Primary School 3.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
Coton Green Primary School 3.1 mi Not judged