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Orchard Fields Community School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Community school
Edmunds Road, Banbury OX16 0QT · orchard-fields.oxon.sch.uk · 01295 263324
On the mapSearch near OX16 0QT
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improved significantly
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 82%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Oxfordshire 62%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Oxfordshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 415
- 92% of 450 places
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 39.4%
- First language not English
- 42.9%
- 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: Oxfordshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 40 families put the school first and 41 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 | 41 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 47 | 42 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 36 | 33 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 52 | 52 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 43 | 43 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 82% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 9% the higher standard. Across Oxfordshire it was 62%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲82% | 62% | ||
| ●9% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▲109 | 106 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 27 November 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Orchard Fields Community School was: Improved significantly.
- Outcome
- Improved significantly
- Inspected
- 26 Nov 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Feb 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Sept 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Jul 2013Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
71% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (34 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 71%
- Replies
- 34
- 8% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on the 44% who had a child bullied