Picknalls First School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–9 · Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
Not published
From Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2024
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Picknalls First School is a primary school in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire for ages 3–9 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 27 November 2024. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 entry.
Picknalls First 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 2024 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 54 first-choice applications for 54 offers (1.0 per offer, 53rd highest of 296 Staffordshire primary schools); every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 9% of pupils, against a middle figure of 15.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.
- Ofsted's latest outcome was Standards maintained (27 November 2024), following a previous graded outcome of Good (28 January 2020).
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
- Oldfields Road, Uttoxeter, ST14 7QL
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- Staffordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 334 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 27 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are eager to learn at this friendly school.”
- “They enjoy lessons and have fun during playtimes.”
- “All staff in the school expect pupils to achieve well.”
To improve
- “A few pupils struggle still with reading but are getting extra help.”
- “In some instances, there are too few checks on whether pupils are ready to move on to the next step.”
- “This means that they can be asked to do new work before they are fully ready.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 54 first-preference applications, 54 offers in total, 54 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.
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE (A) First School 0.5 mi Standards maintained
- Tynsel Parkes CofE Primary Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bramshall Meadows First School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Talbot First School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- St. Peter's Church of England First School 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Dove CofE Academy 4.2 mi Good
- All Saints' CofE First School 4.3 mi Good
More in Staffordshire
- All 711 schools and nurseries in Staffordshire
- Staffordshire primary schools in a table, sorted by results, Ofsted and offers
- Compare Staffordshire with other areas: offers, results, crime, house prices and rents
- How Staffordshire's secondary school cut-offs moved in 2026
- Schools in every council in England