Shrewsbury Academy
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
4.53 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shrewsbury Academy is a secondary school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
Shrewsbury Academy 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 | 4.53 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
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 lived 4.53 miles away, the 5th shortest of 19 Shropshire secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance, nearer than in 2025, after swinging sharply between some years.
- Year 7 2026: 117 first-choice applications for 139 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 22 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 20% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Corndon Crescent, Shrewsbury, SY1 4LL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 817 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Staff know the pupils at Shrewsbury Academy well, and there are high levels of care.”
- “Staff work hard to ensure the school realises the trust’s mission of ‘achievement through caring’.”
- “Recent improvements in how the school manages behaviour means that pupils benefit from better routines and a calmer learning environment.”
To improve
- “There remains much to be done, however, to ensure that provision at Shrewsbury Academy realises the school’s vision in full.”
- “This is not yet consistent, however.”
- “Many pupils speak positively about the school and the place it holds in the local community, but this view is not shared by all.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 April 2024 (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) | 20% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 33.2 | 46 |
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: 117 first-preference applications, 139 offers in total, 117 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.
- Belvidere School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Priory School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Meole Brace School 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Corbet School 6.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Thomas Adams School 8.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Mary Webb School and Science College 8.8 mi Good Last distance published
- William Brookes School 11.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Church Stretton School 13.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published