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Kinlet CofE Primary School

Primary · Kinlet · DY12 3BG

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Requires improvement

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Quality of education: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: Requires improvementPersonal development: Requires improvementLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 14 January 2025

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At a glance

41 pupils · 73% of 56 capacity

School type
Voluntary controlled school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
22% of pupils
English as additional language
0% of pupils
SEN support
17.8% of pupils
EHC plan
2.2% of pupils
Website
www.kinlet.shropshire.sch.uk
URN
123480

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

7 places offered · 7 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

20/21
21/22
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Cutoff by admission criterion (2020 entry)

Priority 4
2.759 miles

2020 is the most recent year we hold a cutoff for this school. It describes that year, not 2026.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

5 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths

suppressed (small cohort)

Reaching the higher standard

suppressed (small cohort)

Average scaled score (reading)

suppressed (small cohort)

Average scaled score (maths)

suppressed (small cohort)

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
5.8%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
17.9%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
13.7
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£10,767
Typical primary school£6,959

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
7/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
4/10more deprived than most of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher31.4%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications21.7%18.1%
In managerial or professional work35.9%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways16.5%18.1%
Residents in very good health40.4%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier79.6%62.3%
Social housing5.6%17.1%
Privately rented14.8%20.5%
Detached houses57.4%22.9%
Flats1.6%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms26.8%21.1%
Households with no car or van5.3%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01028858 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,916 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Roads around the school

No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
0a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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