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Gloucestershire School Catchment Areas

Reviewed by the catchment.school editorial team · Last updated 15 March 2026

Gloucestershire runs one of the larger school estates in England — 243 primary and 41 secondary schools, spread across market towns, villages and denser urban centres.

Expect the tightest competition in and around Gloucester and Cheltenham, where popular primaries are regularly oversubscribed and last-distance-offered figures can shrink to a few hundred metres.

Selective schools are part of the mix in Gloucestershire — for those, passing the admissions test comes first and catchment distance only applies as a tiebreaker.

Each Gloucestershire school below links to its official DfE record and Ofsted report so you can verify everything against the source data yourself.

341 total 243 primary 41 secondary 45 areas

Gloucestershire Catchment Area Documents

Official admissions policies and catchment boundary maps for Gloucestershire schools are published annually.

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Schools in Stroud

35 schools

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Schools in Lydney

11 schools

Schools in Dursley

9 schools

Schools in Tetbury

5 schools

Schools in Newent

4 schools

Schools in Other

4 schools