St Thomas More Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.391 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Coventry for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2024. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Thomas More Catholic 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 | 2.391 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 2.391 miles, 27th longest of 79 Coventry primary schools with a published last distance, where the middle figure was 1.52 miles.
- Distances have swung sharply between years; the Reception 2026 figure was further from the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the longest of the 3 published years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 28 first-choice applications for 28 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 73% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Coventry.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Coventry schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Knoll Drive, Styvechale, Coventry, CV3 5DE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 268 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 February 2024
Strengths
- “St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is a welcoming and inclusive school that puts children at the heart of all that it does.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff across the school are warm and positive.”
- “Leaders value every member of the community as an individual.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the curriculum is quite new, and teachers are not yet skilled in implementing it.”
- “In some cases, they do not always implement learning in a way that helps pupils to remember more.”
- “Consequently, pupils find it difficult to recall key information.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 March 2024 (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) | 73% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 28 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 Coventry.
- Howes Community Primary School 0.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Manor Park Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grange Farm Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stivichall Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Finham Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Whitley Abbey Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- All Saints Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Earlsdon Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published