Gobowen Primary School
Ofsted: School remains GoodCommunity school · Primary
Oswestry · SY11 3LD · Shropshire
Ages 3–11
- KS275%
- Absence5.4%
- FSM19.2%
- Demand1.00
1.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 123403
Weston Rhyn Primary School
Community school · Oswestry · SY10 7SR
Ages 3–11 · 191 pupils · Shropshire
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
43%
Overall absence
6.6%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-11-14
- 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)43%
Higher standard (RWM)4%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 100.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 99.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 99.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.6%
Persistent absence (10%+)16.3%
Unauthorised1.5%
- Authorised absence
- 5.1%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.7%
- Enrolments in measure
- 147
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
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
23
Places offered
23
1st-preference offers
23
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 37
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 23
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- 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 fill91%
191 pupils · 210 places
- Pupils on roll
- 191
- Boys / girls
- 96 / 95
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 191 / 210 (91%)
- Free school meals
- 20.1%
- FSM pupils
- 37
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community 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
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Suzi Bray
Location
- Address
- Old Chirk Road, Weston Rhyn
- Postcode
- SY10 7SR
- Town
- Oswestry
- County
- Shropshire
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- District
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: 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 community school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Oswestry, Shropshire, 191 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 20.1%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Selattyn CofE Primary School
Ofsted: School remains GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Oswestry · SY10 7DH · Shropshire
Ages 5–11
- FSM2.6%
1.9 miles away
Other independent school
Oswestry · SY11 3EW · Shropshire
Ages 1–18
- Att821.6
- EM5+24%
0.4 miles away
St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community)
Ofsted: GoodAcademy sponsor led · All-through
Oswestry · SY10 7BD · Shropshire
Ages 3–16
- Att838.5
- P8-0.5
- EM5+25%
- Absence9.8%
1.6 miles away
Welsh establishment
Wrexham · LL14 5AW · Wrexham
2.8 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Suzi Bray
- Telephone
- 01691773429