Norbury Primary School and Nursery
near Bishop's Castle, SY9 5EA · Shropshire local authority
Bishop's Castle’s School Grade C− better than 16% of towns in England
What stands out about Norbury Primary School and Nursery
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 93% of England’s primary schools
- 81% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19 points above England’s schools
- Over capacity: 70 pupils for 56 places
- 9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Outside any built-up area: listed with Bishop's Castle, the nearest town
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (6 of 6)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SY9 5) sold for a median £299,000; Bishop's Castle’s is £275,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 81%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 93% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Shropshire avg 57%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 112, maths 111 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Norbury Primary School and Nursery?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (1), 2021 (3), 2025 (2). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Shropshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Bishop's Castle and Shropshire, side by side
2023–2025All 120 graded primaries in Shropshire. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bishop's Castle’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minsterley Primary School | A+ | 23% | 83% |
| Norbury Primary School and Nursery | A | 9% | 81% |
| St Lucia's CofE Primary School & Nursery | A | 7% | 81% |
| Trinity CofE Primary School | A | 14% | 81% |
| Stottesdon CofE Primary School | A | 7% | 81% |
| Gobowen Primary School | A | 19% | 79% |
| Rushbury CofE Primary School | A | 19% | 79% |
| Claverley CofE Primary School | A | 11% | 78% |
| Stokesay Primary School | A | 27% | 78% |
| Castlefields Primary School | A | 4% | 78% |
| Moreton Say CofE Primary School | A | 14% | 76% |
| Hadnall Church of England Primary School | A− | 2% | 75% |
| Alveley Primary School | A− | 27% | 74% |
| Shifnal Primary School | A− | 14% | 73% |
| Oxon CofE Primary School | A− | 6% | 73% |
| St Lawrence CofE Primary School | A− | 13% | 72% |
| Coleham Primary School | A− | 8% | 72% |
| Hodnet Primary School | A− | 9% | 72% |
| Criftins CofE Primary School and Nursery | A− | 19% | 72% |
| Clive CofE Primary School | A− | 8% | 71% |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | B+ | 12% | 70% |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School | B+ | 16% | 70% |
| St Andrew's CofE Primary School | B+ | 12% | 69% |
| St Laurence CofE Primary School | B+ | 12% | 69% |
| Longlands Primary School | B+ | 41% | 69% |
| Lower Heath CofE Primary School | B+ | 10% | 69% |
| St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School and Nursery | B+ | 9% | 69% |
| Corvedale CofE Primary School | B+ | 9% | 68% |
| Wilfred Owen Primary School | B+ | 57% | 68% |
| Meole Brace Church of England Primary School and Nursery | B+ | 18% | 68% |
| Stiperstones CofE Primary School | B | 16% | 67% |
| Prees CofE Primary School | B | 29% | 67% |
| St Marys CofE Primary School | B | 16% | 67% |
| Baschurch CofE Primary School | B | 10% | 66% |
| Longden CofE Primary School | B | 4% | 66% |
| St George's Junior School | B | 12% | 66% |
| Whixall CofE Primary School | B | 11% | 65% |
| Harlescott Junior School | B | 35% | 65% |
| Greenfields Primary School | B− | 18% | 64% |
| St Leonard's CofE Primary School | B− | 16% | 64% |
| Barrow 1618 CofE Free School | B− | 10% | 63% |
| Condover CofE Primary School | B− | 12% | 63% |
| St Edward's CofE Primary School | B− | 26% | 63% |
| Selattyn CofE Primary School | B− | 3% | 63% |
| Longnor CofE Primary School | B− | 1% | 62% |
| Bryn Offa CofE Primary School | B− | 15% | 62% |
| St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary School | B− | 26% | 62% |
| Sheriffhales Primary School and Preschool | B− | 11% | 61% |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | B− | 33% | 61% |
| Adderley CofE Primary School | C+ | 7% | 60% |
| Clee Hill Community Academy | C+ | 15% | 60% |
| Radbrook Primary School | C+ | 8% | 60% |
| St Peter's CofE Primary School | C+ | 22% | 60% |
| West Felton Church of England Primary School and Nursery | C+ | 14% | 60% |
| Myddle CofE Primary School | C+ | 9% | 59% |
| Pontesbury CofE Primary School | C+ | 14% | 59% |
| Bitterley CofE Primary School (Aided) | C+ | 10% | 59% |
| Ellesmere Primary School | C+ | 21% | 59% |
| St George's CofE Academy, Clun | C+ | 8% | 59% |
| Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and Nursery | C+ | 16% | 59% |
| Worfield Endowed Church Of England Primary School | C+ | 9% | 59% |
| Church Preen Primary School | C+ | 15% | 58% |
| Belvidere Primary School | C+ | 11% | 58% |
| Ludlow Primary School | C+ | 23% | 58% |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary Academy and Nursery | C+ | 38% | 58% |
| Market Drayton Junior School | C+ | 34% | 58% |
| The Meadows Primary School | C | 16% | 57% |
| Mereside Church of England Primary Academy | C | 15% | 57% |
| Oakmeadow Church of England Primary and Nursery School | C | 10% | 57% |
| John Wilkinson Primary School and Nursery | C | 25% | 56% |
| Mount Pleasant Primary | C | 22% | 55% |
| Beckbury Church of England Primary School and Nursery | C | 9% | 55% |
| Our Lady and St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C | 24% | 55% |
| St Giles CofE Primary School | C | 11% | 54% |
| Much Wenlock Primary School | C | 18% | 54% |
| Newtown CofE Primary School | C− | 4% | 53% |
| Welshampton CofE Primary School | C− | 5% | 53% |
| Woodside Primary School | C− | 18% | 53% |
| Cleobury Mortimer Primary School | C− | 19% | 53% |
| St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C− | 5% | 53% |
| Trefonen CofE Primary School | C− | 8% | 52% |
| St Thomas and St Anne CofE Primary School | C− | 15% | 52% |
| Clunbury CofE Primary School | C− | 14% | 52% |
| Burford CofE Primary School | C− | 20% | 52% |
| Highley Community Primary School | C− | 25% | 51% |
| Broseley CofE Primary School | C− | 29% | 51% |
| Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary School | C− | 23% | 51% |
| Albrighton Primary School & Nursery | C− | 20% | 50% |
| Stoke-on-Tern Primary School | C− | 24% | 49% |
| Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy | C− | 29% | 49% |
| Norton-in-Hales CofE Primary School | C− | 10% | 48% |
| Bomere Heath Church of England Primary School | C− | 23% | 48% |
| Morda CofE Primary School | D | 18% | 46% |
| St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community) | D | 22% | 46% |
| Hinstock Primary School | D | 9% | 46% |
| Woore Primary and Nursery School | D | 12% | 46% |
| Kinnerley Church of England Primary School and Nursery | D | 10% | 46% |
| Buntingsdale Primary School and Nursery | D | 21% | 45% |
| Long Mountain CofE Primary School | D | 17% | 44% |
| Tilstock CofE Primary and Nursery | D | 21% | 43% |
| Greenacres Primary School | D | 49% | 43% |
| Weston Lullingfields Church of England Primary School and Nursery | D | 20% | 42% |
| Bishops Castle Primary School | D | 28% | 40% |
| The Martin Wilson School | D | 40% | 40% |
| Brown Clee CofE Primary School | D | 7% | 39% |
| Cockshutt CofE Primary School and Nursery | D | 22% | 39% |
| Whittington CofE (VA) Primary School | D− | 13% | 38% |
| Morville CofE (Controlled) Primary School | D− | 7% | 38% |
| Weston Rhyn Primary School | D− | 20% | 36% |
| Chirbury CofE VC Primary School & Busy Bees Nursery | D− | 4% | 35% |
| Farlow CofE Primary School | D− | 4% | 33% |
| Brockton CofE Primary School | D− | 5% | 32% |
| Buildwas Academy | D− | 32% | 28% |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and Nursery | D− | 32% | 26% |
| Newcastle CofE Primary School | D− | 19% | 25% |
| Grange Primary School | D− | 46% | 25% |
| Onny CofE (A) Primary School | D− | 15% | 25% |
| Wistanstow CofE Primary School | D− | 8% | 21% |
| Lydbury North Church of England Primary School | D− | 27% | 19% |
| Kinlet CofE Primary School | D− | 22% | 9% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 202576 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Norbury Primary School and Nursery’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), October 2024.
Living near Norbury Primary School and Nursery
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SY9 5, the school’s postcode sector
Bishop's Castle property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SY9 5 sell for a little over Bishop's Castle’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
1 state schoolLocation
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near Bishop's Castle, SY9 5EA
Norbury Primary School and Nursery: common questions
Is Norbury Primary School and Nursery a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 93% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 81% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024.
How hard is it to get into Norbury Primary School and Nursery?
For September 2026, 6 families put Norbury Primary School and Nursery first and all of them were offered a place; 6 places were offered in all.
What is Norbury Primary School and Nursery’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).
How much do houses cost near Norbury Primary School and Nursery?
Homes in its postcode sector, SY9 5, sold for a median £299,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (91 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Bishop's Castle’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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