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All Souls' Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school in Coventry, CV5 8ED, taking ages 3 to 11, 237 on roll.

Good Ofsted, May 2024
0.38 mi Admitted from, latest published year
113% Full, over capacity
65.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In the latest published round, the furthest child offered a place lived 0.38 miles away.

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

The circle is 0.38 miles, the distance the school admitted from in the latest published year.

All Souls' Catholic Primary School: 0.38 miles Coundon Primary School: 2.88 miles, published by Coventry

This is not a catchment area. 0.38 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 All Souls' Catholic 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 and faith criteria 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 All Souls' Catholic Primary School and Coundon Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Coundon Primary School admitted from 2.88 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 0.38 and 2.88 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.

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Drop Coundon 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 All Souls' Catholic Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Moseley Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.54 mi 0.8 mi
St Christopher Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.35 mi 0.8 mi
St Osburg's Catholic Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.6 mi 0.8 mi
Coundon Primary School Both in reach Primary 2.88 mi 1.0 mi
Barr's Hill School Both in reach Secondary 1.83 mi 1.1 mi
Radford Primary Academy Both in reach Primary 0.52 mi 1.2 mi

The distance as a picture

All Souls' Catholic Primary School catchment area map: the 0.38 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 characterRoman Catholic
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 237 pupils in 210 places (113% full, over capacity)
Local authorityCoventry

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Good, inspected 14 May 2024. Ungraded inspection, May 2024: school remains Good
Meeting the expected standard 65.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 65.0%
2023/24 60.0%
2022/23 45.0%

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

Who goes to All Souls' Catholic Primary School

Girls and boys46.4% girls, 53.6% boys
English as an additional language13.5% of pupils
Free school meals5.5% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

Getting to All Souls' Catholic Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Sovereign Road, 0.2 mi away, with 10.2 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 05:42, last 23:44.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Queensland Avenue0.1 mi9.83.84.018, 6, 6A, 188, 18A
Queensland Avenue0.1 mi3.02.02.111
Kingston Road0.1 mi3.12.21.911

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

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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 All Souls' Catholic Primary School?

All Souls' Catholic 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 0.38 miles away, per Coventry.

How close do I need to live to get a place at All Souls' Catholic Primary School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 0.38 miles was enough in the latest published year, and at 113% 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 All Souls' Catholic Primary School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings and faith criteria 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 →
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