Mount Pleasant Primary
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
26.60 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mount Pleasant Primary is a primary school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Mount Pleasant Primary 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 | 26.60 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, 55% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 26.60 miles away, the 3rd longest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The last distance offered for Reception in 2026 was further from the school than in 2024.
- There were 38 first-choice applications for 40 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place.
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
- Whitemere Road, Mount Pleasant, Shrewsbury, SY1 3BY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 346 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 6 January 2026
Strengths
- “Relationships across the school are warm and positive.”
- “Staff get to know pupils well.”
- “Any issues with safety, behaviour or bullying are quickly resolved.”
To improve
- “However, some inconsistencies and weaknesses in teaching impacts on how well pupils learn and achieve.”
- “They are deeply committed to ensuring that the school remedies the weaknesses that exist within the curriculum, teaching and achievement.”
- “Although many pupils achieve well, there is variability in how successfully pupils make progress through the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 March 2026 (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) | 55% | 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, 40 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.
- Greenfields Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Martin Wilson School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and Nursery 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grange Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Sundorne Infant School and Nursery 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wilfred Owen Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greenacres Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Harlescott Junior School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade