Five Acres Primary School

Community school·Primary school Bicester, Oxfordshire·OX25 2SN
Composite score
40.9
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#10,655
National rank
#1592
In South East
#171
In Oxfordshire
Top 72%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
45%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
33 first choices, 34 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
48
any preference, for 34 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Five Acres 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
335
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
24.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,359
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Five Acres Primary School at a glance

Located in Bicester, Oxfordshire, Five Acres Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 335 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 45% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 19.0 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 101 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Five Acres Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 33 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 19.7 pupils per teacher. Five Acres 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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