Greenfields Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.022 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Greenfields Primary School is a primary school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 13 May 2025. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Greenfields 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 | 2.022 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 81% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 2.022 miles, the 27th shortest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 4.25 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 38 first-choice applications for 39 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 18.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 38.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Shropshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Shropshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hemsworth Way, Ellesmere Road, Shrewsbury, SY1 2AH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 342 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 13 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this nurturing and welcoming school.”
- “Warm relationships between staff, pupils and families are at the centre of it.”
- “Its motto, ‘kind hearts, inquisitive minds’, is shown in the way pupils work and play together.”
To improve
- “The school recognises that last academic year, pupils did not achieve as well as they might in published outcomes.”
- “The school’s published outcomes are below the national standards.”
- “However, in some subjects, the school has not had sufficient time to check how well pupils remember the important knowledge or how well the subject is being delivered.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2025 (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) | 81% | 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: 38 first-preference applications, 39 offers in total, 38 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 Shropshire.
- Mount Pleasant Primary 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and Nursery 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Martin Wilson School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wilfred Owen Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Grange Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Coleham Primary School 1.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Crowmoor Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sundorne Infant School and Nursery 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published