Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–7 · Market Drayton, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.557 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School is a primary school in Market Drayton, Shropshire for ages 2–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 15 September 2022. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery 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 | 0.557 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.557 miles away, the 6th shortest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 4.25 miles).
- For Reception entry in 2026 there were 53 first-choice applications for 53 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 1 of the 2 years with a published outcome.
- The school has 27.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.6 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
- Longslow Road, Market Drayton, TF9 3BA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 346 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 15 September 2022
Strengths
- “Market Drayton Infant School is a warm, welcoming community.”
- “There is a strong ethos of looking out for each other.”
- “The core values of collaboration, positivity, respect and aspiration are at the centre of school life.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, where leaders have revised the curriculum, teachers are less confident in implementing the new plans.”
- “New leaders monitor their subjects, but their feedback to teachers on how they can improve their lessons is not precise enough.”
- “There are some inconsistencies in teaching spelling.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 October 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 53 first-preference applications, 53 offers in total, 53 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.
- Market Drayton Junior School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- Longlands Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Buntingsdale Primary School and Nursery 1.9 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Moreton Say CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Norton-in-Hales CofE Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stoke-on-Tern Primary School 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Adderley CofE Primary School 3.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Cheswardine Primary and Nursery School 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published