Watchfield Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Watchfield, Oxfordshire·SN6 8SD
Composite score
42.2
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#10,120
National rank
#1511
In South East
#159
In Oxfordshire
Top 68%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
56%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 20/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
13 first choices, 14 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
37
any preference, for 14 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9520221.0020230.9720240.9520250.932026

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

Every child who put Watchfield 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
346
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
32.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£4,783
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Watchfield Primary School at a glance

Located in Watchfield, Oxfordshire, Watchfield Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 346 pupils aged 3 to 11. 56% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 30.0 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 105 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 5% 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 Watchfield Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 14 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 22.6 pupils per teacher. Watchfield 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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