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Priory Common School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Scatterill Close, Bradwell, Milton Keynes MK13 9EZ · priory-common.milton-keynes.sch.uk · 01908 321646
On the mapSearch near MK13 9EZ
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Dec 2019
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Milton Keynes Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 61
- 68% of 90 places
- Local authority
- Milton Keynes
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 32.8%
- First language not English
- 32.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Milton Keynes Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 14 families put the school first and 15 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 15 | 14 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 16 | 14 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 23 | 23 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 17 | 14 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Priory Common School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 11 December 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Jan 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 28 Jan 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Dec 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Dec 2019Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2009Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Sept 2005Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
91% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (11 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 91%
- Replies
- 11
- 19% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 55% who raised concerns
based on the 18% who had a child bullied