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Holmwood School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Academy
Kensington Drive, Great Holm, Milton Keynes MK8 9AB · holmwoodschool.com · 01908 260596
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improving
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Milton Keynes Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 201
- 21 over 180 places · 112%
- Local authority
- Milton Keynes
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 17.1%
- First language not English
- 26.9%
- 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: Milton Keynes Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 36 families put the school first and 37 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 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 51 | 45 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 36 | 26 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 53 | 45 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 43 | 41 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 27 March 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Holmwood School was: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Improving
- Inspected
- 26 Mar 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 110392), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jun 2018Good
Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110392)
Apr 2016Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110392)
May 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110392)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (27 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 27
- 14% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 67% who raised concerns
based on the 11% who had a child bullied