Long Lawford Primary School

Community school·Primary school Rugby, Warwickshire·CV23 9AL
Composite score
41.2
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#10,501
National rank
#1130
In West Midlands
#118
In Warwickshire
Top 71%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
49%
% achieving higher RWM
8%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
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
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
38 first choices, 43 places
First choices per place
0.88
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
57
any preference, for 43 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
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1 per place
0.9120220.9120230.9620240.9520250.882026

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

Every child who put Long Lawford 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
470
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
23.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,267
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Long Lawford Primary School

Long Lawford Primary School is a primary school in Rugby, Warwickshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 470 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 49% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 9.0 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 104 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 8% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Long Lawford Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 38 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.7%. There are about 18.9 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Long Lawford Primary 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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