Five Ashes CofE Primary School

Voluntary controlled school·Primary school Mayfield, East Sussex·TN20 6HY
Composite score
53.3
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#6,094
National rank
#909
In South East
#43
In East Sussex
Top 41%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
82%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
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
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
7 first choices, 10 places
First choices per place
0.70
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
23
any preference, for 10 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6720221.0020231.0020240.8320250.702026

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

Every child who put Five Ashes CofE Primary 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
57
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£9,688
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Five Ashes CofE Primary School is a primary school serving Mayfield, East Sussex, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school with a Church of England religious character. It has 57 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 82% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 37.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 41% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 109 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Five Ashes CofE Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 7 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 15.0 pupils per teacher. Five Ashes CofE 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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