Ludlow Primary School
Ofsted: GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Ludlow · SY8 1HX · Shropshire
Ages 2–11
- KS250%
- Absence5.9%
- FSM22.5%
- Demand0.98
0.7 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 123529
St Laurence CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school · Ludlow · SY8 1TP
Ages 3–11 · 237 pupils · Shropshire
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
66%
Overall absence
5.7%
Admissions demand
1.17 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-03-05
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)66%
Higher standard (RWM)6%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 108.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence5.7%
Persistent absence (10%+)15.4%
Unauthorised1.2%
- Authorised absence
- 4.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 2.2%
- Enrolments in measure
- 182
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.17 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
35
Places offered
30
1st-preference offers
30
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 67
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 30
- Applications from outside LA
- 2
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill95%
237 pupils · 250 places
- Pupils on roll
- 237
- Boys / girls
- 123 / 114
- School capacity
- 250
- Capacity fill
- 237 / 250 (95%)
- Free school meals
- 11.8%
- FSM pupils
- 28
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Hereford
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary controlled school
- Headteacher
- Mr Stephen Matthews
Location
- Address
- Jockeyfield
- Postcode
- SY8 1TP
- Town
- Ludlow
- County
- Shropshire
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- District
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed voluntary controlled school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Ludlow, Shropshire, 237 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 11.8%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Hereford.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary School
Ofsted: Not judgedVoluntary aided school · Primary
Ludlow · SY8 4BX · Shropshire
Ages 2–11
- KS250%
- Absence5.5%
- FSM23.1%
- Demand1.00
2.3 miles away
Ludlow Church of England School
Ofsted: Not judgedAcademy converter · Secondary
Ludlow · SY8 1GJ · Shropshire
Ages 11–16
- Att841.4
- P8-0.5
- EM5+31%
- Absence9.9%
1.0 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Stephen Matthews
- Telephone
- 01584872766