Mill Lane Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Chinnor, Oxfordshire·OX39 4RF
Composite score
62.1
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#3,372
National rank
#484
In South East
#55
In Oxfordshire
Top 23%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
83%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
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
93%
28 first choices, 28 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
96
any preference, for 28 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1020221.1020231.1720241.0320251.002026

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

Oxfordshire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Mill Lane Community Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
228
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
10.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,512
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Mill Lane Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, Mill Lane Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 228 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 83% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 33.0 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 top 23% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 93% of the families who made Mill Lane Community Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 5.3%. There are about 24.8 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 10% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Mill Lane 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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