The Grange Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Banbury, Oxfordshire·OX16 9YA
Composite score
76.5
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#1,008
National rank
#137
In South East
#18
In Oxfordshire
Top 7%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
89%
% achieving higher RWM
16%
Reading average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
42 first choices, 43 places
First choices per place
0.98
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
152
any preference, for 43 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.52
1 per place
1.4620221.3320230.9320241.0720250.982026

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

Every child who put The Grange Community 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
314
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
13.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
15.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
6.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,193
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

The Grange Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Banbury, Oxfordshire, The Grange Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 314 pupils aged 4 to 11. 89% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 9.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 7% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 109 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 16% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made The Grange Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 43 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.0%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. The Grange Community 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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