How far do you need to live from a school in Coventry to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 34 Coventry schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.76 miles away; the tightest was Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School at 0.25 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Coventry schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Coventry schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Coventry publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 34 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

34schools with a published figure

0.76 mithe middle school's distance

19filled within a mile

The tightest is Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School at 0.25 miles in varies; the most far-reaching, Alderman's Green Primary School, admitted from 5.89 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.25 mi	varies	108%
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Coventry	Good	0.3 mi	varies	110%
St Christopher Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.35 mi	varies	111%
St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School Coventry	Good	0.35 mi	varies	97%
All Souls' Catholic Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.38 mi	varies	113%
John Gulson Primary School Coventry	Good	0.38 mi	varies	101%
Ravensdale Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.45 mi	varies	96%
Radford Primary Academy Coventry	Good	0.52 mi	varies	100%
Moseley Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.54 mi	varies	136%
Courthouse Green Primary School Coventry	Outstanding	0.55 mi	varies	100%
Sidney Stringer Primary Academy Coventry	No current grade	0.57 mi	varies	99%
St Osburg's Catholic Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.6 mi	varies	106%
All Saints Church of England Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.68 mi	varies	112%
Allesley Hall Primary School Coventry	No current grade	0.71 mi	varies	93%
Whittle Academy Coventry	No current grade	0.88 mi	varies	76%
Stoke Heath Primary School Coventry	No current grade	1.22 mi	varies	95%
Stivichall Primary School Coventry	No current grade	1.31 mi	varies	102%
Holy Family Catholic Primary School Coventry	Good	1.51 mi	varies	109%
Sowe Valley Primary School Coventry	No current grade	1.63 mi	varies	100%
Cannon Park Primary School Coventry	Good	2.24 mi	varies	95%
Coundon Primary School Coventry	No current grade	2.88 mi	varies	85%
Alderman's Green Primary School Coventry	Good	5.89 mi	varies	95%

Secondary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Blue Coat Church of England School and Music College Coventry	Good	0.41 mi	varies	101%
Cardinal Newman Catholic School Coventry	No current grade	0.66 mi	varies	96%
Sidney Stringer Academy Coventry	Good	0.68 mi	varies	111%
Ernesford Grange Community Academy Coventry	No current grade	0.76 mi	varies	116%
Stoke Park School Coventry	Good	1.0 mi	varies	99%
President Kennedy School Academy Coventry	Outstanding	1.21 mi	varies	115%
Caludon Castle School Coventry	No current grade	1.3 mi	varies	105%
Finham Park School Coventry	No current grade	1.66 mi	varies	99%
Barr's Hill School Coventry	Outstanding	1.83 mi	varies	118%
Bishop Ullathorne Catholic School Coventry	Good	3.68 mi	varies	91%
Finham Park 2 Coventry	No current grade	3.76 mi	varies	91%
West Coventry Academy Coventry	Good	5.63 mi	varies	97%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Coventry measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Coventry. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.