Co-op Academy Northwood
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Stoke-on-Trent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.534 miles
Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Co-op Academy Northwood is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 9 July 2025. Stoke-on-Trent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Co-op Academy Northwood 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 | 1.534 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.534 miles away, the 30th longest of 67 Stoke-on-Trent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.38 miles).
- That 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025.
- The 2026 Reception entry had 32 first-choice applications for 43 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer, the 3rd lowest of 66 Stoke-on-Trent primary schools; 11 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 18.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 23.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Stoke-on-Trent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Keelings Road, Northwood, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 6QA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Pupils on roll
- 179 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 38% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 9 July 2025
Strengths
- “Northwood is a school that welcomes everyone with open arms into what is typically described as ‘one big family’.”
- “Everyone looks after each other and there is ambition for what pupils can achieve.”
- “Most pupils achieve well in the majority of subjects across the curriculum.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, some pupils do not know and understand important concepts and knowledge that has been taught previously.”
- “This leads to gaps in pupil’s knowledge and understanding in a few subjects.”
- “As a result, some pupils are not secure in their understanding”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 32 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 32 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 Stoke-on-Trent.
- Co-op Academy Grove 0.2 mi Good
- St George and St Martin's Catholic Academy 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hanley St Luke's Church of England Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Hamilton 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Waterside Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sneyd Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Abbey Hulton Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published