Heyford Park School

Free schools·Primary school Bicester, Oxfordshire·OX25 5HD
Composite score
69.9
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#1,787
National rank
#250
In South East
#32
In Oxfordshire
Top 12%
Nationally

Primary performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
68%
% achieving higher RWM
22%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
49 first choices, 50 places
First choices per place
0.98
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
72
any preference, for 50 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8920220.9520231.0020240.9220250.982026

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

Every child who put Heyford Park 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).

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
65%
43 first choices, 36 places
First choices per place
1.19
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
166
any preference, for 36 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.30
00.511.5
1 per place
0.4220220.6420230.4420240.9020251.192026

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 Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Heyford Park School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

Secondary performance (KS4 GCSE)

Heyford Park School is an all-through school covering ages 3–19, so it has two sets of results. The headline score above reflects its primary (KS2) results, ranked against other primaries; its GCSE (KS4) results — ranked separately against other secondaries — are shown here.

#2,553
National rank
#374
In South East
#32
In Oxfordshire
Top 80%
Nationally
Attainment 8 score
39.7
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
36%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
58%
% EBacc grade 5+
14%
EBacc average points score
3.37

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

School profile

Age range
3–19
Pupils on roll
655
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
9.5%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.7%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
20.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.6
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,860
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
89%
61 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
77%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
8%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby primary schools

Location

Heyford Park School at a glance

Located in Bicester, Oxfordshire, Heyford Park School is an all-through school, classified by the DfE as a free school. The school educates roughly 655 pupils aged 3 to 19. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 68% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 5.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. At GCSE, the school's average Attainment 8 score was 39.7, below the national average of 46. On our composite score, Heyford Park School ranks among the top 12% of primary schools in England for its primary (KS2) results. For its secondary (KS4) results, it ranks in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 22% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). At Key Stage 4, 36% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Heyford Park School their first choice was offered one of its 50 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 19.6 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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