Mount Pleasant Primary, Shrewsbury

Ofsted's report card from its 6 January 2026 inspection grades Mount Pleasant Primary on 7 areas: 1 strong standard, 4 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have established a clear and coherent approach that ensures that pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils typically attend well."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children make a positive start in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have established effective ways to ensure that staff get to know pupils' specific needs early."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the school and the community it serves."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Although many pupils achieve well, there is variability in how successfully pupils make progress through the curriculum."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the school's curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should ensure that highly effective teaching is evident across all key stages, so all pupils learn the school's curriculum as well as intended. • Leaders should ensure that staff have the expertise to help pupils who fall behind in phonics to catch up quickly and become fluent readers. • Leaders should ensure that teaching supports pupils to develop the knowledge and skills they will need for future learning in handwriting, spelling and mathematics".

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils at Mount Pleasant Primary reached the expected standard in reading and 61% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 72% in Shropshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 86% in reading and 83% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 38 families put Mount Pleasant Primary as their first choice and 83 named it as one of their preferences, for 40 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Mount Pleasant Primary are Greenfields Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 94% reading, 91% maths); The Martin Wilson School (0.5 miles); Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and Nursery (0.6 miles, 83% reading, 57% maths); and Grange Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 44% reading, 38% maths).

Mount Pleasant Primary's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

Mount Pleasant Primary is one of 6 schools run by Severn Bridges Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

43 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Mount Pleasant Primary (as of April 2026): 77% would recommend the school, 77% say their child is happy there and 67% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (81%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (67%).

9.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 37 pupils (10.7%) received SEN support and 31 (9%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Shrewsbury Rail Station, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Whitemere Road Jct (adjacent), 190 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Mount Pleasant Primary stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 163 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Shropshire (10), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Mount Pleasant Primary issued 14 suspensions, 3.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Mount Pleasant Primary are Shrewsbury Academy (0.9 miles) and Belvidere School (1.5 miles).