Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School

Community school·Primary school Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire·HP19 9NS
Composite score
37.7
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#11,629
National rank
#1749
In South East
#126
In Buckinghamshire
Top 79%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
58%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
59 first choices, 59 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
110
any preference, for 59 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1620220.7920231.2920240.8820251.002026

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

Every child who put Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
536
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
41.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
21.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,254
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School

Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School is a primary school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 536 pupils aged 2 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 58% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 32.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 59 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.0%. There are about 19.4 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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