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Best secondary schools in Shropshire

19 of 21 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Shropshire schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 15 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Church Stretton School Church Stretton hidden gem 0.44 Good about even 0.91 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 The Priory School Shrewsbury 0.38 Good declining oversubscribed 1.38 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
3 The Corbet School Shrewsbury 0.36 Good about even 1.07 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 Sir John Talbot's School Whitchurch hidden gem 0.18 Good about even 0.91 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
5 Mary Webb School and Science College Shrewsbury hidden gem 0.08 Good about even 0.91 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
6 Meole Brace School Shrewsbury hidden gem -0.22 Good improving undersubscribed 0.73 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
7 The Community College, Bishop's Castle Bishops Castle hidden gem -0.22 Good improving about even 0.98 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
8 Bridgnorth Endowed School Bridgnorth -0.24 Good improving oversubscribed 1.2 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
9 The Lacon Childe School Kidderminster -0.28 Requires improvement about even 0.96 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
10 The Marches School Oswestry hidden gem -0.29 Good about even 0.97 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
11 Belvidere School Shrewsbury -0.44 Not judged about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
12 Oldbury Wells School Bridgnorth hidden gem -0.44 Good undersubscribed 0.73 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
13 Ludlow Church of England School Ludlow -0.47 Not judged about even 0.97 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
14 The Grove School Market Drayton -0.48 Requires improvement about even 0.92 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
15 The Thomas Adams School Shrewsbury -0.5 Good about even 1.14 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
16 Shrewsbury Academy Shrewsbury -0.55 Requires improvement undersubscribed 0.84 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
17 Lakelands Academy Ellesmere hidden gem -0.63 Good about even 0.95 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
18 Idsall School Shifnal -0.85 Not judged about even 0.86 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
19 William Brookes School Much Wenlock -0.95 Requires improvement about even 0.92 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped

Also in Shropshire

2 further secondary schools with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of Shropshire, not a fairer one.

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