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Sidney Stringer Primary Academy
B+

Sidney Stringer Primary Academy

PrimaryAges 4–11Free school

Coventry, CV1 5GU · Coventry local authority

Coventry’s School Grade C+ better than 38% of towns in England

Photo: Keith Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Its letter
72%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
58/71
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
416 pupils
99% of its 420 places
Free school meals
46%
46 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Sidney Stringer Primary Academy

  • Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 72% of England’s primary schools
  • 70% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8 points above England’s schools
  • 46% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, November 2025: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 82% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (58 of 71)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CV1 5) sold for a median £150,000; Coventry’s is £225,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 70%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 72% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Coventry avg 58%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Sidney Stringer Primary 70%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading83%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)74%
England’s schools 73%
Maths79%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling86%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 28 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
61%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
77%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three5%
England’s schools 8% · Coventry 5% · 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 Sidney Stringer Primary Academy?

82% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

71
families put it first for September 2026
60
places offered
82%
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: 2019 (27), 2020 (26), 2021 (30), 2022 (27), 2023 (35), 2024 (42), 2025 (37), 2026 (13). 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. Sidney Stringer Multi Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Coventry council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Coventry, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.34 per place
72% got their first choice
1.31 per place
74% got their first choice
1.30 per place
77% got their first choice
1.29 per place
78% got their first choice
1.22 per place
82% got their first choice
Sidney Stringer Primary
1.18 per place
82% got their first choice
1.17 per place
84% got their first choice
1.17 per place
86% got their first choice
1.10 per place
84% got their first choice
1.10 per place
88% got their first choice

Coventry and Coventry, side by side

2023–2025

All 85 graded primaries in Coventry. 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. Coventry’s schools are coloured by their letter.

20%32%44%56%68%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Sidney Stringer Primary
ABCDElsewhere in CoventrySidney Stringer Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St John Vianney Catholic Primary SchoolA+8%85%
Manor Park Primary SchoolA11%80%
Finham Primary SchoolA7%80%
Cannon Park Primary SchoolA13%79%
Stivichall Primary SchoolA5%78%
St Thomas More Catholic Primary SchoolA−14%71%
St Christopher Primary SchoolB+9%70%
Moseley Primary SchoolB+27%70%
Southfields Primary SchoolB+35%70%
Sidney Stringer Primary AcademyB+46%70%
Christ The King Catholic Primary SchoolB+9%70%
Seva SchoolB+14%69%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolB+11%69%
Walsgrave Church of England AcademyB+11%69%
Stanton Bridge Primary SchoolB+38%69%
Earlsdon Primary SchoolB+14%68%
Ernesford Grange Primary SchoolB+12%68%
Whoberley Hall Primary SchoolB32%67%
Hill Farm AcademyB35%67%
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolB21%67%
Broad Heath Community Primary SchoolB30%66%
Ravensdale Primary SchoolB12%66%
Grange Farm Primary SchoolB5%65%
St Osburg's Catholic Primary SchoolB26%65%
Good Shepherd Catholic SchoolB27%65%
Aldermoor Farm Primary SchoolB−29%64%
SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary SchoolB−14%64%
Parkgate Primary SchoolB−31%64%
Hollyfast Primary SchoolB−10%63%
Stoke Heath Primary SchoolB−45%63%
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolB−16%63%
Allesley Primary SchoolB−11%62%
Joseph Cash Primary SchoolB−39%62%
Courthouse Green Primary SchoolB−33%62%
John Shelton Community Primary SchoolB−29%61%
St John's Church of England AcademyB−6%61%
Clifford Bridge AcademyB−9%61%
St John Fisher Catholic Primary SchoolC+21%60%
Alderman's Green Primary SchoolC+38%60%
Limbrick Wood Primary SchoolC+45%59%
Mount Nod Primary SchoolC+14%58%
Sowe Valley Primary SchoolC39%57%
John Gulson Primary SchoolC39%57%
All Souls' Catholic Primary SchoolC6%57%
Radford Primary AcademyC43%57%
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolC24%57%
St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolC24%57%
Stoke Primary SchoolC32%56%
Whitmore Park Primary SchoolC22%56%
St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary SchoolC40%56%
St Laurences CofE Primary SchoolC33%56%
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary SchoolC38%56%
Eastern Green Junior SchoolC15%55%
Park Hill Primary SchoolC10%55%
Wyken Croft Primary SchoolC19%55%
Richard Lee Primary SchoolC26%55%
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolC23%54%
Corpus Christi Catholic SchoolC30%54%
Coundon Primary SchoolC−17%53%
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolC−37%52%
Charter AcademyC−45%52%
Allesley Hall Primary SchoolC−12%51%
Keresley Grange Primary SchoolC−24%50%
Whitley Abbey Primary SchoolC−25%49%
Grangehurst Primary SchoolC−25%49%
Holbrook Primary SchoolC−37%49%
Howes Community Primary SchoolC−33%49%
Templars Primary SchoolC−34%48%
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary SchoolC−44%48%
Moat House Primary SchoolC−51%48%
Whittle AcademyC−24%48%
Leigh Church of England AcademyC−39%48%
Pearl Hyde Community Primary SchoolD17%47%
Little Heath Primary SchoolD42%47%
Willenhall Community Primary SchoolD41%46%
Potters Green Primary SchoolD34%46%
Henley Green PrimaryD58%44%
Longford Park Primary SchoolD28%43%
Hearsall Community AcademyD29%43%
Frederick Bird AcademyD52%41%
Gosford Park Primary SchoolD31%40%
St Bartholomew's Church of England AcademyD35%39%
Edgewick Community Primary SchoolD−40%34%
Stretton Church of England AcademyD−37%34%
Spon Gate Primary SchoolD−57%24%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

421 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
20.7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
52.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
47.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Sidney Stringer Primary Academy’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 72% 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.

Report card, inspection starting November 2025.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns), February 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Sidney Stringer Primary Academy

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

Home prices in CV1 5, the school’s postcode sector

Coventry property prices →
£150,000
median sale, 68 sales in 36 months · Coventry £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025CV1 5Coventry
CV1 5Coventry

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£155K
Terraced
£154K
Flat
£105K
CV1 5Coventry

Homes in CV1 5 sell for well under Coventry’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

32 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+D−DBB−CB−B−CB+CBD−B+CC+B+BCA+BB+B−D−B+DB−C+CCB+DB+Sidney Stringer Primary Aca…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Coventry, CV1 5GU

Sidney Stringer Primary Academy: common questions

Is Sidney Stringer Primary Academy a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 72% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 70% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in November 2025.

How hard is it to get into Sidney Stringer Primary Academy?

For September 2026, 71 families put Sidney Stringer Primary Academy first and 58 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.

What is Sidney Stringer Primary Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (November 2025) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Sidney Stringer Primary Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, CV1 5, sold for a median £150,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (68 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; Coventry’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.