Falkland Primary School

Community school·Primary school Newbury, West Berkshire·RG14 6NU
Composite score
49.2
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National rank
#1129
In South East
#18
In West Berkshire
Top 51%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
65%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
76%
79 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.32
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
152
any preference, for 60 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.32
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0320221.1820231.0020241.0020251.322026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Falkland Primary School yet. West Berkshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
419
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
6.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
8.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
5.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,564
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

About Falkland Primary School

Falkland Primary School is a primary school in Newbury, West Berkshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 419 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 65% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 8.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Falkland Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 79 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.1%. There are about 21.8 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 6% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Falkland Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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