Hanwell Fields Community School

Academy converter·Primary school Banbury, Oxfordshire·OX16 1ER
Composite score
34.7
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#12,416
National rank
#1858
In South East
#199
In Oxfordshire
Top 84%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
48%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
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
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
65 first choices, 59 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
140
any preference, for 59 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0720221.0720231.1520241.1020251.102026

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

Oxfordshire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Hanwell Fields Community School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
456
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
18.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,334
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Hanwell Fields Community School at a glance

Located in Banbury, Oxfordshire, Hanwell Fields Community School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 456 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 48% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 11.0 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 in the lower half 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). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 88% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (65 first choices for 59 places). Overall pupil absence was 4.7%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. Hanwell Fields Community 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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