Marshbrook First School

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–9 · Stafford, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2025

0.48 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025

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Marshbrook First School is a primary school in Stafford, Staffordshire for ages 2–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 July 2022. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.

Marshbrook 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 2025	0.48 mi
Reception 2024	🔒 With a pass

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

For Reception 2025, the last distance offered was 0.48 miles, nearer the school than in 2024.
That 0.48 miles was the 2nd shortest of the 27 Staffordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance; the middle figure was 1.79 miles.
Reception 2026 had 24 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
There are 28.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.

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: Teddesley Road, Penkridge, Stafford, ST19 5BA
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–9
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 176 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 14.2% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 28.8

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 6 July 2022

Strengths

“Marshbrook is a welcoming and friendly school.”
“Pupils enjoy positive relationships with each other and the adults they work with.”
“This helps pupils to feel safe.”

To improve

“However, these opportunities are not always organised well enough for them to build a complete picture of what is going well and what needs to get better.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 24 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 24 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 Michael's CofE (A) First School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Princefield First School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Leonard's CofE First School 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
All Saints CofE Primary School, Bednall 2.8 mi Requires improvement
Littleton Green Community School 3.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
St Lukes CofE Primary School 3.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Moorhill Primary School 3.9 mi Some aspects not as strong
Burton Manor Primary School 4.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published