The Avenue
The Avenue is an independent special school in Stoke-on-Trent for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 21 pupils and room for 42.
Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 5RF01782 354585theavenue.btsa.orgClare Cragg headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2025: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Stoke-on-Trent council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's College | Academy (grammar) | 40 m | 1,104 | No overall grade 2025 | 98 | Compare |
| Oakhill Primary School | Academy | 170 m | 452 | Good 2023 | 44 | Compare |
| St Teresa's Catholic (A) Primary School | Academy | 570 m | 327 | Good 2023 | 88 | Compare |
| Clayton Hall Academy | Academy | 0.8 miles | 828 | Good 2024 | 49 | Compare |
| Thistley Hough Academy | Academy | 0.9 miles | 1,105 | Report card 2026 | 56 | Compare |
| Priory CofE Academy | Academy | 0.9 miles | 443 | Good 2019 | 58 | Compare |
| St John's CofE (A) Primary School | Church of England | 0.9 miles | 270 | Report card 2026 | 15 | Compare |
| Stoke Minster CofE Primary Academy | Academy | 1.0 miles | 343 | No overall grade 2025 | 12 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is The Avenue a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score The Avenue yet.
How many pupils does The Avenue have?
21 pupils aged 4 to 11 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 42 places, so it is 50% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 5RF
- Telephone
- 01782 354585
- Website
- www.theavenue.btsa.org
- Headteacher
- Clare Cragg
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 4-11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Ward
- Trent Vale & Oak Hill
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent Central
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 23 September 2025 (new provision)
- URN
- 151896 · LAESTAB 8616048 · UKPRN 10100340
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.