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Park Hill Junior School

Community school in Kenilworth, CV8 2JJ, taking ages 7 to 11, 249 on roll.

Report card Ofsted, May 2026
6.59 mi Admitted from, 2025/26
94% Full
66.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In 2025/26, the furthest child offered a place lived 6.59 miles away.

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

The circle is 6.59 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2025/26.

Park Hill Junior School: 6.59 miles, 2025/26 St Nicholas CofE Primary School: 2.41 miles, 2025/26, published by Warwickshire

This is not a catchment area. 6.59 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 Park Hill Junior 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 labels on the map are postcode districts whose centre falls inside both circles; each opens the district's guide.

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

One published year so far: 2025/26, from Warwickshire. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Warwickshire, published admission distances, 2025/26

Where Park Hill Junior School and St Nicholas CofE Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. St Nicholas CofE Primary School admitted from 2.41 miles in 2025/26, published by Warwickshire. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside both published distances, cheapest first by the median of real sales around each district's centre. The cheapest is CV8 at £415,000. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list.

DistrictAreaFrom Park Hill Junior SchoolFrom St Nicholas CofE Primary SchoolMedian sold price
CV8 Warwick 0.8 mi 1.5 mi £415,000 104 sales

Sold prices from HM Land Registry, via each district's area guide. Distances measured from each district's centre to each school's point on the Department for Education register.

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Drop St Nicholas CofE Primary School and go back to one school.

If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Warwickshire, 71 of 356 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (19.9%; 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 Park Hill Junior School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Kenilworth School and Sixth Form Both in reach Secondary 3.0 mi 2025/26 0.2 mi
St Nicholas CofE Primary School Both in reach Primary 2.41 mi 2025/26 0.7 mi
Clinton Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.61 mi 2025/26 1.3 mi
Priors Field Primary School Both in reach Primary 5.06 mi 2025/26 1.5 mi
All Saints Church of England Academy Both in reach Primary 1.52 mi 2025/26 2.3 mi
Bishop Ullathorne Catholic School Both in reach Secondary 3.68 mi 2.4 mi

The distance as a picture

Park Hill Junior School catchment area map: the 6.59 mile admission distance, 2025/26 and the postcode districts inside it
Drawn to scale from the published figure, with the districts whose centre falls inside. 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 249 pupils in 264 places (94% full)
Local authorityWarwickshire

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Report card, May 2026: 2 areas strong or exceptional, 4 at the expected standard
Report card
  • Safeguarding Met
  • Inclusion Strong standard
  • Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
  • Achievement Expected standard
  • Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
  • Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
  • Early years Not applicable
  • Post-16 provision Not applicable
  • Leadership and governance Expected standard
Ofsted stopped giving schools a single overall grade in 2024; from November 2025 each area is judged on this five-point scale.
Meeting the expected standard 66.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 66.0%
2023/24 76.0%
2022/23 70.0%

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

Who goes to Park Hill Junior School

Girls and boys51.0% girls, 49.0% boys
English as an additional language8.8% of pupils
Free school meals6.4% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Park Hill Junior School

Cheapest district inside the 6.59 miles: CV1, median £120,000. Dearest: CV8, £415,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
CV1 Coventry 4.8 mi £120,000 5 sales
CV4 Coventry 3.4 mi £192,500 87 sales
CV3 Coventry 4.5 mi £201,000 102 sales
CV5 Coventry 4.4 mi £210,000 156 sales
CV6 Coventry 6.3 mi £215,884 257 sales
CV34 Warwick 4.8 mi £250,000 130 sales
CV31 Warwick 5.1 mi £270,000 92 sales
CV32 Warwick 3.7 mi £341,000 127 sales
CV8 Warwick 0.8 mi £415,000 104 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 6.59 miles the school admitted from in 2025/26, cheapest first, by the median of real sales around each district's centre. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list. Districts without enough recorded sales to rank are not shown.

How this compares across England: what a tight gate costs, school by school.

Source: HM Land Registry sold prices, via each district's area guide

Getting to Park Hill Junior School by bus

Best-served stop: Saville Grove, 0.1 mi away, with 2.2 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 06:20, last 20:55.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Framlingham Grove141 yd0.20.00.024A, 24
Framlingham Grove154 yd0.20.00.024, 24A
Saville Grove0.1 mi2.21.00.9X17, 24A, 24

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 Park Hill Junior School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around CV8: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at CV8 2JJ, 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 Park Hill Junior School?

Park Hill Junior 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 2025/26 lived 6.59 miles away, per Warwickshire.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Park Hill Junior School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 6.59 miles was enough in 2025/26. 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 Park Hill Junior 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.

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