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The Grange Community Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Community school
Avocet Way, Banbury OX16 9YA · grange.oxon.sch.uk · 01295 257861
On the mapSearch near OX16 9YA
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 89%
- 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
- 310
- 98% of 315 places
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 16.1%
- First language not English
- 12.9%
- 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, 42 families put the school first and 43 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 | 43 | 42 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 43 | 46 | 1.1▲ | 93% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 44 | 41 | 0.9 | 95% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 45 | 60 | 1.3▲ | 73% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 44 | 64 | 1.5▲ | 69% |
Results
In 2024/25, 89% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 16% 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 | |||
| ▲89% | 62% | ||
| ▲16% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▲109 | 106 | ||
| ●107 | 105 | ||
| ▲109 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 1 March 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for The Grange Community Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 28 Feb 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jul 2013
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Nov 2017Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Jul 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Mar 2012Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate
What parents said
99% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (103 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 99%
- Replies
- 103
- 34% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 71% who raised concerns
based on the 17% who had a child bullied
based on 22 parents (21%) with SEND