Parkside Primary School

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Stafford, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.384 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Parkside Primary School is a primary school in Stafford, Staffordshire for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 July 2022. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.

Parkside 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 2026	0.384 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

Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.384 miles away, the 7th shortest of 58 Staffordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.27 miles).
Reception last distances swung between years: 2026 was about the same as 2025 and nearer than 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
Reception 2026 had 55 first-choice applications for 44 offers; 43 offers went to first-choice families, and 12 first-choice families were not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 84% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 18% 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: Bradshaw Way, Parkside, Stafford, ST16 1TH
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–11
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 399 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 14.3% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 21.6

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 12 July 2022

Strengths

“‘Come as you are and leave as a champion’ is the school motto.”
“Leaders promote this in all they do.”
“They have built an ethos that centres around children, families and community.”

To improve

“However, the work in books is not always of a consistently high standard and there are basic errors.”
“In English, and across other books, pupils in some year groups make too many basic mistakes.”
“Teachers are not addressing these errors.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 September 2022 (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)	84%	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: 55 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 43 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.

Tillington Manor Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
Beaconfields Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good
John Wheeldon Primary Academy 1.1 mi Standards maintained
Doxey Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
Burleyfields Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St John's CofE Primary Academy 1.8 mi Standards maintained
St Austin's Catholic Primary School and Nursery 2.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published