Schools in Bishops Castle
Bishops Castle is a small market town in the Shropshire Hills, notable as one of England's smallest towns with a weekly market. The four schools in the area serve a wide rural catchment, with one oversubscribed school and an average fill rate of 84%. The single secondary, Bishops Castle Community College, feeds from the surrounding hamlets and farms across a large geographic area.
Shropshire Council coordinates admissions. Distance is the primary tie-breaker for community schools, though driving distances on rural roads can be considerable. One school in the area has a Church of England designation. Norbury Primary and Stiperstones CofE are typical of the small village primaries in this part of Shropshire, where mixed-age classes and small cohorts are common.
Primary schools in Bishops Castle: 1 oversubscribed (3)
Norbury Primary School and Nursery
Primary · Foundation school
Bishops Castle · SY9 5EA
Stiperstones CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
Bishops Castle · SY9 5EA
Bishops Castle Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Bishops Castle · SY9 5PA
Secondary Schools in Bishops Castle (1)
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Bishops Castle are set by Shropshire and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.