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Moseley Primary School

Community school in Coventry, CV6 1AB, taking ages 2 to 11, 571 on roll.

Good Ofsted, Oct 2023
0.54 mi Admitted from, latest published year
136% Full, over capacity
76.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In the latest published round, the furthest child offered a place lived 0.54 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 0.54 miles, the distance the school admitted from in the latest published year.

Moseley Primary School: 0.54 miles All Souls' Catholic Primary School: 0.38 miles, published by Coventry

This is not a catchment area. 0.54 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Moseley Primary School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

Source: Coventry, published admission distances

Where Moseley Primary School and All Souls' Catholic Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. All Souls' Catholic Primary School admitted from 0.38 miles in the latest published year, published by Coventry. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

No postcode district has its centre inside both distances. The two schools admit from 0.54 and 0.38 miles, and the ground those circles share holds no district centre, which is a fact about where the centres fall rather than about any one address. The map above shows both, and the postcode checker answers for both.

Sign up to save both schools and be told when either council republishes the distance these answers rest on.

Drop All Souls' Catholic Primary School and go back to one school.

If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Coventry, 83 of 355 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (23.4%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to Moseley Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Radford Primary Academy Both in reach Primary 0.52 mi 0.4 mi
St Osburg's Catholic Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.6 mi 0.4 mi
Barr's Hill School Both in reach Secondary 1.83 mi 0.5 mi
Coundon Primary School Both in reach Primary 2.88 mi 0.6 mi
All Souls' Catholic Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.38 mi 0.8 mi
Sidney Stringer Primary Academy Both in reach Primary 0.57 mi 1.0 mi

The distance as a picture

Moseley Primary School catchment area map: the 0.54 mile admission distance
Drawn to scale from the published figure. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 571 pupils in 420 places (136% full, over capacity)
Local authorityCoventry

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Good, inspected 11 October 2023. Ungraded inspection, October 2023: school remains Good
Meeting the expected standard 76.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 76.0%
2023/24 72.0%
2022/23 63.0%

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to Moseley Primary School

Girls and boys51.3% girls, 48.7% boys
English as an additional language40.1% of pupils
Free school meals24.5% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

Getting to Moseley Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Alvis Retail Park, 0.2 mi away, with 7.2 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; the service runs through the night.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Loudon Avenue0.1 mi4.02.52.07, 7A, 7B
Duckham Court0.1 mi4.02.52.07, 7A, 7B
Duckham Court0.2 mi3.92.22.07, 7A, 7B

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

Weighing Moseley Primary School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around CV6: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at CV6 1AB, by the school: council tax, energy, prices, rent, stamp duty →

Checking the house as well as the school

The full report checks one address against every nearby school, with sold prices, flood risk and crime.

Common questions

What is the catchment area for Moseley Primary School?

Moseley Primary School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in the latest published year lived 0.54 miles away, per Coventry.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Moseley Primary School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 0.54 miles was enough in the latest published year, and at 136% full the school has little slack. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near Moseley Primary School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Every Coventry school's distance

All Coventry schools with a published admission distance, tightest first →
How school admissions actually work, and what the distance means →

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Admission distance published by Coventry. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.