The Grove School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Market Drayton, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
130.016 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Grove School is a secondary school in Market Drayton, Shropshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 25 April 2023. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
The Grove 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 130.016 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 130.016 miles away, the longest of 19 Shropshire secondary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 9.77 miles).
- The Year 7 last distance was further in 2026 than in 2025 and 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- For Year 7 2026, 138 first-choice applications for 150 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 12 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 28% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 39.5 (England 46).
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
- Newcastle Road, Market Drayton, TF9 1HF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 856 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 25 April 2023
Strengths
- “The Grove School is welcoming, inclusive and friendly.”
- “Staff strive to ensure all pupils develop ‘a mindset to succeed’, in line with their school motto.”
- “The vast majority of pupils are polite, courteous and work hard.”
To improve
- “However, a significant minority of pupils’ behaviour is not good enough.”
- “Some pupils talk about some lessons being disrupted.”
- “Some teachers do not challenge this behaviour consistently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 28% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.5 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C- | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 138 first-preference applications, 150 offers in total, 138 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Shropshire.
- Sir John Talbot's School 9.0 mi Good Last distance published
- The Thomas Adams School 11.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Shrewsbury Academy 15.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Idsall School 16.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Belvidere School 16.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Corbet School 17.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lakelands Academy 17.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Priory School 18.9 mi Good Last distance published