Schools in Stafford

Stafford has 62 schools in the catchment.school database, covering 45 primaries and 7 secondaries across the town and surrounding villages. Admissions are administered by Staffordshire County Council, which publishes catchment boundaries each September. Twenty-eight schools in the Stafford area are faith schools - one of the higher faith-school concentrations in the county - with Church of England and Roman Catholic schools each operating supplementary information forms alongside the council's distance criteria.

For secondary places, Stafford is served by King Edward VI High School (selective), Walton High School, and Stafford Academy among others. The selective grammar at King Edward VI uses the Staffordshire 11-plus test; families must register separately in the summer term of Year 5. Distance-based community secondaries set catchment distances that can shift each year; the Staffordshire Composite Prospectus published in September gives the last-offered distances for the previous cohort.