Bowbrook Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 3–11 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.936 miles
Published by Shropshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bowbrook Primary School is a primary school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for ages 3–11 (free schools). Shropshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bowbrook 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 | 0.936 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 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 Reception place for 2026 lived 0.936 miles away, the 13th shortest of 123 Shropshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 4.25 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2024, the other year with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 34 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
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
- Squinter Pip Way, Shrewsbury, SY5 8PY
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Shropshire
- Pupils on roll
- 118 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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 Shropshire.
- Oxon CofE Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Radbrook Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Woodfield Infant School & Nursery 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St George's Junior School 0.9 mi Good
- Meole Brace Church of England Primary School and Nursery 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Coleham Primary School 1.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Bicton Church of England Primary School and Nursery 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oakmeadow Church of England Primary and Nursery School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published