East Wittering Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Chichester, West Sussex·PO20 8NH
Composite score
44.2
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#9,430
National rank
#1407
In South East
#105
In West Sussex
Top 64%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
59%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
30 first choices, 33 places
First choices per place
0.91
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
40
any preference, for 33 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put East Wittering 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
267
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
27.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
9.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
22.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,966
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

East Wittering Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Chichester, West Sussex, East Wittering Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 267 pupils aged 4 to 11. 59% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 10.0 percentage points year on 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). 5% 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 East Wittering Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 33 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.5%. There are about 18.0 pupils per teacher. East Wittering 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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