Schools in Ross-on-Wye
Ross-on-Wye's 12 schools are administered by Herefordshire Council, with 11 primaries and 1 secondary — John Kyrle High School — serving this historic market town and a wide rural hinterland extending to the Forest of Dean and Welsh border. Herefordshire uses straight-line distance as the main oversubscription tiebreaker, and the county's rural character means many village primaries feed into John Kyrle for secondary education.
Faith provision is highly prominent: 11 of the 12 schools carry a religious designation, the majority Church of England. This leaves limited non-faith community primary places within the town boundary. Families without an active faith connection should check which community primaries — including Ashfield Park Primary School — are nearest to their address, as distance-based places at these schools are in higher demand.
John Kyrle High School takes pupils from a broad geographic intake stretching into Gloucestershire and the Wye Valley. Three of the town's schools are academies. Herefordshire publishes annual admissions statistics; historical distance data from catchment.school helps families in surrounding villages assess whether they fall within a realistic distance for Ross-on-Wye primaries or should look at neighbouring LA alternatives.
School demand in Ross-on-Wye
Across the 12 schools in Ross-on-Wye with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 84%. 1 of them is currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
8 schools in Ross-on-Wye have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
3 of the schools in Ross-on-Wye are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Herefordshire, County of, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
6 of the schools in Ross-on-Wye have a current Ofsted rating, of which 6 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Ross-on-Wye: 1 oversubscribed (11)
Ashfield Park Primary School
Primary · Community school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 5AU
Walford Nursery & Primary School
Primary · Community school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 5SA
Gorsley Goffs Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 7SE
Brampton Abbotts CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 7FX
Bridstow CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 6PZ
Lea CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 7JY
St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 5AW
Weston-under-Penyard CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 7PA
Whitchurch CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 6DA
Llangrove CE Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 6EZ
Goodrich CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Ross-on-Wye · HR9 6HY
Secondary Schools in Ross-on-Wye (1)
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Ross-on-Wye are set by Herefordshire, County of and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.