Dunmore Primary School

Community school·Primary school Abingdon, Oxfordshire·OX14 1NR
Composite score
46.5
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#8,593
National rank
#1273
In South East
#143
In Oxfordshire
Top 58%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
12%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 25/11/2025 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Inclusion
Expected standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Expected standard

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
40 first choices, 40 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
130
any preference, for 40 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320220.9120231.0020240.8920251.002026

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

Every child who put Dunmore 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
431
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
18.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,193
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Dunmore Primary School is a primary school serving Abingdon, Oxfordshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 431 pupils aged 2 to 11 on roll. 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 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 106 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 12% 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 Dunmore Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 40 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 24.8 pupils per teacher. Dunmore 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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