Graded inspection · Sep 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Oxfordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 24 September 2024Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 7 June 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry107 applications · 28 places offered · 34 named it first
- 2026 3.8; Oxfordshire median median 2.6
- 2025 4.0; Oxfordshire median median 2.7
- 2024 3.6; Oxfordshire median median 2.6
- 2023 3.8; Oxfordshire median median 2.6
- 2022 2.5; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2021 2.3; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2020 2.9; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2019 2.0; Oxfordshire median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2018 2.4; Oxfordshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2017 2.5; Oxfordshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2016 2.2; Oxfordshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2015 2.4; Oxfordshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 2.5; Oxfordshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Oxfordshire median
Dashed bars: as Hardwick Primary School (URN 122999), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 28 | 107 | 3.8 | 34 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2025 | 29 | 115 | 4.0 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2024 | 27 | 96 | 3.6 | 22 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 114 | 3.8 | 40 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2022 | 30 | 75 | 2.5 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2021 | 30 | 69 | 2.3 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2020 | 25 | 73 | 2.9 | 23 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 61 | 2.0 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2018 * | 30 | 71 | 2.4 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 76 | 2.5 | 42 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2016 * | 28 | 62 | 2.2 | 28 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 73 | 2.4 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 76 | 2.5 | 38 | 1.27 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 77% · Writing 80% · Maths 77% → all three 70% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Oxfordshire median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 70% | 3% | 105 | 101 |
| 2023/24 | 53% | 3% | 103 | 102 |
| 2022/23 | 68% | 11% | 104 | 104 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Hardwick Primary School and NurseryThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20243.8applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · Oxfordshire20262.3applications per place 56%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · OxfordshireGraded · no overall grade20252.4applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · OxfordshireStandards maintained20253.6applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · OxfordshireGraded · no overall grade20253.3applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · OxfordshireGood20222.9applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · OxfordshireImproved significantly20241.9applications per place 82%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · OxfordshireOutstanding20223.7applications per place
- 2.2 km · OxfordshireGood20222.2applications per place 74%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 146810 · 931/2060
- Trust
- GLF Schools
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 249 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 February 2019
- Replaced
- Hardwick Primary School (URN 122999)
- Address
- Ferriston, Hardwick School, Banbury, OX16 1XE
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire · Cherwell
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources