Rudgwick Primary School

Community school·Primary school Horsham, West Sussex·RH12 3HW
Composite score
32.5
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National rank
#1928
In South East
#171
In West Sussex
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
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
71%
42 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.40
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
82
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
45%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.07
00.511.52
1 per place
0.9720221.0020231.0320241.3320251.402026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Rudgwick Primary School yet. West Sussex does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
215
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
5.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
5.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
9.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,714
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Rudgwick Primary School

Rudgwick Primary School is a primary school in Horsham, West Sussex, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 215 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 13.0 percentage points compared with 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 108 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Rudgwick Primary School is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 42 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.4%. There are about 21.3 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 6% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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