Alexandra Infants' School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Stoke-on-Trent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.883 miles
Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Alexandra Infants' School is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 1 July 2025. Stoke-on-Trent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Alexandra Infants' 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 | 1.883 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception 2026 place lived 1.883 miles away, nearer than in 2025; 26th longest of 67 Stoke-on-Trent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception 2026 the published admission number was 60 places; there were 20 first-choice applications for 22 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- There are 13.7 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Ofsted's latest outcome was Not judged (1 July 2025); the previous graded outcome was Requires improvement (29 November 2022).
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
- Melville Road, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4PZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Pupils on roll
- 171 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 1 July 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and cheerful.”
- “They know their teachers will always look after them.”
- “The school has high expectations for pupils.”
To improve
- “The school has identified that children start school with gaps in communication and language.”
- “Now and again, the school does not ensure that subject-specific vocabulary is explained with enough precision.”
- “This means some pupils are unclear about the exact meaning of key words, which can make it more difficult for them to grasp new concepts fully.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 20 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 20 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.
- Alexandra Junior School 0.3 mi Good
- Belgrave St Bartholomew's Academy 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Academy 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Park Hall Academy 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sandon Primary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Weston Junior Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Gladstone Primary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published