Grange Primary School
General Information
- Address: Bainbridge Green, Shrewsbury, SY1 3QR – View on map
- Phone: 01743462984
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Headteacher Charlie Summers
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 18 families put it first for 19 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 60
- % eligible for free school meals: 45.5%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Shropshire average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.6% a year (Shropshire 14%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 33% moved to another school, 67% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 2 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Shropshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Shropshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 8.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 27.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 19% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 40 percentage points below the Shropshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 25% against an expected 44%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 25%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 44% · Writing 50% · Maths 38% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 31%
- Average test scores: reading 98, maths 97
- Based on: 16 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 94th of 96 junior and primary schools in the area
- #92Newtown CofE Primary School25%
- #93Chirbury CofE VC Primary School & Busy Bees Nursery22%
- #94Grange Primary School19%
- #95Brown Clee CofE Primary School18%
- #96Lydbury North Church of England Primary School14%
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28th of 86 primary schools in Shropshire for Ofsted rating
- #26Farlow CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #27Gobowen Primary SchoolGood
- #28Grange Primary SchoolGood
- #29Greenfields Primary SchoolGood
- #30Hadnall Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,264 (2024-25)
28th of 112 primary schools in Shropshire for spending per pupil
- #26Stoke-on-Tern Primary School£8,367
- #27Wilfred Owen Primary School£8,304
- #28Grange Primary School£8,264
- #29Holy Trinity Church of England Primary Academy and Nursery£8,070
- #30Onny CofE (A) Primary School£8,034
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