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Moreton Say CofE Primary School

PrimaryAges 2–11Voluntary controlledChurch of England

near Ternhill, TF9 3RS · Shropshire local authority

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Its letter
85%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
10/10
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
111 pupils
106% of its 105 places
Free school meals
14%
14 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Moreton Say CofE Primary School

  • Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 85% of England’s primary schools
  • 76% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14 points above England’s schools
  • Over capacity: 111 pupils for 105 places
  • 14% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Ternhill, the nearest town
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (10 of 10)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TF9 3) sold for a median £238,000; Ternhill’s is £177,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 76%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 85% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Shropshire avg 57%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Moreton Say CofE Primary 76%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading93%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)93%
England’s schools 73%
Maths87%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling80%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three13%
England’s schools 8% · Shropshire 6% · 2025

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Moreton Say CofE Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

10
families put it first for September 2026
10
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2025 (3). 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. Shropshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Shropshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Moreton Say CofE Primary
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice

Ternhill and Shropshire, side by side

2023–2025

All 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. Ternhill’s schools are coloured by their letter.

5%21%37%53%69%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Moreton Say CofE
ABCDElsewhere in ShropshireMoreton Say CofE Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Minsterley Primary SchoolA+23%83%
Norbury Primary School and NurseryA9%81%
St Lucia's CofE Primary School & NurseryA7%81%
Trinity CofE Primary SchoolA14%81%
Stottesdon CofE Primary SchoolA7%81%
Gobowen Primary SchoolA19%79%
Rushbury CofE Primary SchoolA19%79%
Claverley CofE Primary SchoolA11%78%
Stokesay Primary SchoolA27%78%
Castlefields Primary SchoolA4%78%
Moreton Say CofE Primary SchoolA14%76%
Hadnall Church of England Primary SchoolA−2%75%
Alveley Primary SchoolA−27%74%
Shifnal Primary SchoolA−14%73%
Oxon CofE Primary SchoolA−6%73%
St Lawrence CofE Primary SchoolA−13%72%
Coleham Primary SchoolA−8%72%
Hodnet Primary SchoolA−9%72%
Criftins CofE Primary School and NurseryA−19%72%
Clive CofE Primary SchoolA−8%71%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolB+12%70%
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolB+16%70%
St Andrew's CofE Primary SchoolB+12%69%
St Laurence CofE Primary SchoolB+12%69%
Longlands Primary SchoolB+41%69%
Lower Heath CofE Primary SchoolB+10%69%
St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School and NurseryB+9%69%
Corvedale CofE Primary SchoolB+9%68%
Wilfred Owen Primary SchoolB+57%68%
Meole Brace Church of England Primary School and NurseryB+18%68%
Stiperstones CofE Primary SchoolB16%67%
Prees CofE Primary SchoolB29%67%
St Marys CofE Primary SchoolB16%67%
Baschurch CofE Primary SchoolB10%66%
Longden CofE Primary SchoolB4%66%
St George's Junior SchoolB12%66%
Whixall CofE Primary SchoolB11%65%
Harlescott Junior SchoolB35%65%
Greenfields Primary SchoolB−18%64%
St Leonard's CofE Primary SchoolB−16%64%
Barrow 1618 CofE Free SchoolB−10%63%
Condover CofE Primary SchoolB−12%63%
St Edward's CofE Primary SchoolB−26%63%
Selattyn CofE Primary SchoolB−3%63%
Longnor CofE Primary SchoolB−1%62%
Bryn Offa CofE Primary SchoolB−15%62%
St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary SchoolB−26%62%
Sheriffhales Primary School and PreschoolB−11%61%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolB−33%61%
Adderley CofE Primary SchoolC+7%60%
Clee Hill Community AcademyC+15%60%
Radbrook Primary SchoolC+8%60%
St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolC+22%60%
West Felton Church of England Primary School and NurseryC+14%60%
Myddle CofE Primary SchoolC+9%59%
Pontesbury CofE Primary SchoolC+14%59%
Bitterley CofE Primary School (Aided)C+10%59%
Ellesmere Primary SchoolC+21%59%
St George's CofE Academy, ClunC+8%59%
Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and NurseryC+16%59%
Worfield Endowed Church Of England Primary SchoolC+9%59%
Church Preen Primary SchoolC+15%58%
Belvidere Primary SchoolC+11%58%
Ludlow Primary SchoolC+23%58%
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary Academy and NurseryC+38%58%
Market Drayton Junior SchoolC+34%58%
The Meadows Primary SchoolC16%57%
Mereside Church of England Primary AcademyC15%57%
Oakmeadow Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolC10%57%
John Wilkinson Primary School and NurseryC25%56%
Mount Pleasant PrimaryC22%55%
Beckbury Church of England Primary School and NurseryC9%55%
Our Lady and St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyC24%55%
St Giles CofE Primary SchoolC11%54%
Much Wenlock Primary SchoolC18%54%
Newtown CofE Primary SchoolC−4%53%
Welshampton CofE Primary SchoolC−5%53%
Woodside Primary SchoolC−18%53%
Cleobury Mortimer Primary SchoolC−19%53%
St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyC−5%53%
Trefonen CofE Primary SchoolC−8%52%
St Thomas and St Anne CofE Primary SchoolC−15%52%
Clunbury CofE Primary SchoolC−14%52%
Burford CofE Primary SchoolC−20%52%
Highley Community Primary SchoolC−25%51%
Broseley CofE Primary SchoolC−29%51%
Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary SchoolC−23%51%
Albrighton Primary School & NurseryC−20%50%
Stoke-on-Tern Primary SchoolC−24%49%
Whitchurch CofE Junior AcademyC−29%49%
Norton-in-Hales CofE Primary SchoolC−10%48%
Bomere Heath Church of England Primary SchoolC−23%48%
Morda CofE Primary SchoolD18%46%
St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community)D22%46%
Hinstock Primary SchoolD9%46%
Woore Primary and Nursery SchoolD12%46%
Kinnerley Church of England Primary School and NurseryD10%46%
Buntingsdale Primary School and NurseryD21%45%
Long Mountain CofE Primary SchoolD17%44%
Tilstock CofE Primary and NurseryD21%43%
Greenacres Primary SchoolD49%43%
Weston Lullingfields Church of England Primary School and NurseryD20%42%
Bishops Castle Primary SchoolD28%40%
The Martin Wilson SchoolD40%40%
Brown Clee CofE Primary SchoolD7%39%
Cockshutt CofE Primary School and NurseryD22%39%
Whittington CofE (VA) Primary SchoolD−13%38%
Morville CofE (Controlled) Primary SchoolD−7%38%
Weston Rhyn Primary SchoolD−20%36%
Chirbury CofE VC Primary School & Busy Bees NurseryD−4%35%
Farlow CofE Primary SchoolD−4%33%
Brockton CofE Primary SchoolD−5%32%
Buildwas AcademyD−32%28%
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and NurseryD−32%26%
Newcastle CofE Primary SchoolD−19%25%
Grange Primary SchoolD−46%25%
Onny CofE (A) Primary SchoolD−15%25%
Wistanstow CofE Primary SchoolD−8%21%
Lydbury North Church of England Primary SchoolD−27%19%
Kinlet CofE Primary SchoolD−22%9%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

123 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.

SEN support
15.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
11.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 46%Boys 54%
Its letter

Moreton Say CofE Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths ABetter than 85% of 15,230 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Moreton Say CofE Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in TF9 3, the school’s postcode sector

Ternhill property prices →
£238,000
median sale, 367 sales in 36 months · Ternhill £177,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025TF9 3
TF9 3Ternhill

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£355K
Semi-detached
£220K
Terraced
£175K
Flat
£109K
TF9 3Ternhill

Homes in TF9 3 sell for well over Ternhill’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

near Ternhill, TF9 3RS

Nearby

Primary schools near Moreton Say CofE Primary School

The nearest state schools of the same phase, as the crow flies. Catchments and admissions rules decide which one a child gets.

Moreton Say CofE Primary School: common questions

Is Moreton Say CofE Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 85% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 76% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2023.

How hard is it to get into Moreton Say CofE Primary School?

For September 2026, 10 families put Moreton Say CofE Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 10 places were offered in all.

What is Moreton Say CofE Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).

How much do houses cost near Moreton Say CofE Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, TF9 3, sold for a median £238,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (367 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; Ternhill’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.