Willowcroft Community School

Academy converter·Primary school Didcot, Oxfordshire·OX11 8BA
Composite score
57.7
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#4,661
National rank
#677
In South East
#76
In Oxfordshire
Top 32%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
69%
% achieving higher RWM
11%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
93%
60 first choices, 58 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
116
any preference, for 58 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.21
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9220220.9820230.9320240.8220251.032026

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 Willowcroft 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
488
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
24.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
21.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,102
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Willowcroft Community School at a glance

Located in Didcot, Oxfordshire, Willowcroft Community School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 488 pupils aged 2 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 69% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That is down 8.0 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 top 32% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 11% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 93% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (60 first choices for 58 places). Overall pupil absence was 5.8%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. Willowcroft 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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