Alsagers Bank Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.157 miles
Furthest distance (miles): "3.157" · Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Alsagers Bank Primary Academy is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 20 November 2024. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Alsagers Bank Primary 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 |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 3.157 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 3.157 miles away, the 12th longest of 58 Staffordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.27 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 24 first-choice applications for 25 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- 2024/25: 65% in reading, writing and maths was 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- The Drive, Alsagers Bank, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 8BB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Staffordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 178 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 20 November 2024
Strengths
- “Alsagers Bank Primary Academy is a happy and welcoming school where all pupils work hard to achieve their best.”
- “The school has high expectations for pupils’ achievement.”
- “Pupils achieve well and enjoy a broad range of subjects and wider opportunities.”
To improve
- “In the wider curriculum, a minority of pupils struggle to recall their learning or vocabulary.”
- “They find it difficult to remember key knowledge.”
- “For example, in science, pupils remembered the ‘material monsters’ but not the properties of the materials.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2025 (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) | 65% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 24 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 Staffordshire.
- Wood Lane Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged
- St Luke's CofE (C) Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged
- Ravensmead Primary School 1.6 mi Good
- Silverdale Primary Academy 1.8 mi Good
- Crackley Bank Primary School 1.9 mi Good
- Churchfields Primary School 1.9 mi Not judged
- St John's CofE Primary Academy 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Chesterton Primary School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade
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