Queen Emma's Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Witney, Oxfordshire·OX28 5JW
Composite score
20.3
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#14,444
National rank
#2122
In South East
#224
In Oxfordshire
Top 98%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
24%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
98.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
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
100%
18 first choices, 20 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
51
any preference, for 20 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.9320230.6020241.0020250.902026

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

Every child who put Queen Emma's 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
182
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
24.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
22.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,890
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Queen Emma's Primary School at a glance

Located in Witney, Oxfordshire, Queen Emma's Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 182 pupils aged 4 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 24% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 12.0 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 101 in reading and 98 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Queen Emma's Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 18 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.9%. There are about 16.1 pupils per teacher. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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