Forest Park Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Stoke-on-Trent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.267 miles
Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Forest Park Primary School is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 4 October 2023. Stoke-on-Trent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Forest Park 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 | 3.267 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 67.8% of pupils, against a middle figure of 39.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 3.267 miles away, the 10th longest of the 67 Stoke-on-Trent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 47 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 11 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Stoke-on-Trent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Woodall Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5ED
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Pupils on roll
- 457 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 67.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 4 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils benefit from their time at Forest Park Primary School.”
- “Every day, pupils try to ‘be the best they can be’.”
- “They listen to and act on any worries or niggles pupils have.”
To improve
- “However, there are some inconsistencies in the school’s approach to teaching mathematics.”
- “Pupils do not always get enough opportunities to apply their learning in a range of contexts.”
- “This means that pupils do not achieve as well as they could in mathematics.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 2023 (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) | 61% | 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: 47 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 47 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 Stoke-on-Trent.
- St Peter's Catholic Academy 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sneyd Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Hamilton 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Grove 0.7 mi Good
- St George and St Martin's Catholic Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Northwood 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Waterside Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Etruscan Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published