The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Shifnal Primary School

URN 123424 · Primary · Community school · Shropshire

Curriers Lane, Shifnal, TF11 8EJ

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 40 families named Shifnal Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 42 offers.

That is 0.95 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 38% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 38% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.06 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 40 84 42 0.95
2024 41 95 42 0.98
2023 63 108 50 1.26
2022 50 106 50 1.00
2021 55 86 49 1.12
2020 56 94 50 1.12
2019 47 85 44 1.07
2018 41 70 41 1.00
2017 41 76 42 0.98
2016 28 46 29 0.97
2015 18 55 24 0.75
2014 35 56 35 1.00

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 3 March 2023

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 72.0% 15.0% 110.0 110.0
2023/24 60.0% 5.0% 107.0 105.0
2022/23 89.0% 15.0% 109.0 108.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 16.1 14.3 0.8 1.0 11.2%
2023/24 16.1 15.5 0.0 0.6 3.7%
2022/23 15.9 12.7 0.8 2.4 20.1%
2021/22 14.7 12.1 1.0 1.6 17.7%
2020/21 15.9 14.0 0.0 1.9 11.9%
2019/20 15.5 15.5 0.0 0.0 0.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Shropshire publishes an admission zone for this school (St. Andrew's CE Primary School, Shifnal).

Covers: 92 live postcodes across 17.479 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of St Andrew's CofE Primary School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

4 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Shared with: St Andrew's CofE Primary School. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Shropshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Shifnal Primary School).

Covers: 162 live postcodes across 15.282 km².

7 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Shifnal Primary School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Shifnal Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.