Kings Wood School and Nursery

Community school·Primary school High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire·HP13 7UN
Composite score
47.9
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#8,049
National rank
#1196
In South East
#99
In Buckinghamshire
Top 54%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
54%
% achieving higher RWM
11%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
50 first choices, 53 places
First choices per place
0.94
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
110
any preference, for 53 places
Last place offered lived
0.63 mi
straight line, 2025 intake · 1009 m
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8120221.1020231.0020241.0520250.942026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2025 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it. In 2026 the school was not oversubscribed, so no distance limit applied.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
457
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
34.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
25.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
6.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
13.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,286
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Kings Wood School and Nursery is a primary school serving High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 457 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 54% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 4.0 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 around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 11% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Kings Wood School and Nursery was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 50 families who put it first were offered a place. The council's own allocation figures show the last child offered a place for 2025 lived 0.63 miles away in a straight line — that distance is not a fixed catchment and moves each year. Overall pupil absence was 5.7%. There are about 21.0 pupils per teacher. Kings Wood School and Nursery 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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