Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School

Community school·Primary school Slough·SL2 1PH
Composite score
73.8
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#1,275
National rank
#174
In South East
#6
In Slough
Top 9%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
83%
% achieving higher RWM
17%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
77 first choices, 89 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
158
any preference, for 89 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620220.9420230.8720240.9920250.862026

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

Every child who put Penn Wood Primary and Nursery 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
697
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
33.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
87.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
21.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,571
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School is a primary school serving Slough, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 697 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 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 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 among the top 9% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 17% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 77 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 21.6 pupils per teacher. Penn Wood Primary and Nursery 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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