Shropshire's best primary schools revealed as five rank in The Times 2026 school league tables
Five Shropshire primary schools have been named among the best in the country in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2026.
The Sunday Times has released its Parent Power Guide 2026 - a school league table considered the most authoritative survey of the UK's top schools.
As well as ranking the country's best private schools, the newspaper compiles a list of the best state secondary and primary schools.
Along with 700 of the top secondary schools, The Times lists the country's top 1,000 state primary schools and this year, five Shropshire primary schools have made the cut.
The schools are ranked by their Key Stage 2 results in reading, grammar and maths from 2024.
Ranked as the best state primary school in Shropshire is Moorfield Primary School in Newport.
The Newport primary is ranked as the 209th best state primary school in the country, and 14th out of 87 schools in the West Midlands.
Second in Shropshire, and 411th nationally, is Hugo Meynell Church of England Primary School, in Loggerheads near Market Drayton.
In third place is St Peter's Church of England Primary School in Edgmond, which ranking 524th nationally and 40th place in the West Midlands.
Newdale Primary School in Telford followed in fourth place for Shropshire, which ranked 602nd nationally and 51st in the West Midlands.
And in fifth place was Oxon Church of England Primary School in Shrewsbury, which is ranked as the 83rd best primary in the West Midlands and 953rd nationally.
A full list of schools featured in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2026 is available on the newspaper’s website.
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