Stoke Mandeville Combined School

Stoke Mandeville Combined School continues to deliver a good standard of education, with a strong inclusive environment where pupils feel happy and safe. Leaders demonstrate high expectations and ensure that all students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), receive support and are integrated fully into school life. The school has a well-structured phonics program, and pupils enjoy learning, especially in reading, mathematics, and science, although recent outcomes in key stage 2 mathematics were lower than expected. The school is actively addressing curricular gaps to enhance learning outcomes.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy learning and feel happy and safe.
• The school fosters an inclusive environment for all pupils.
• Leaders have high expectations and a clear vision for curriculum development.
• Strong emphasis on phonics leading to early reading success.
• Behaviour around the school is calm and orderly.
• Good relationships between pupils and staff.
• Pupils with SEND are fully integrated and supported.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum plans in foundation subjects are at different stages of implementation.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Stoke Mandeville Combined School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.5% of pupils at Stoke Mandeville Combined School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Stoke Mandeville Combined School had 20.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.2% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 11.9% of pupils at Stoke Mandeville Combined School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 6 pupils.

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Stoke Mandeville Combined School received £7,782 and spent £8,112 for each of its 217 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £116,000 (£534 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Stoke Mandeville Combined School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Stoke Mandeville Combined School is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Stoke Mandeville Combined School last inspected by Ofsted?

Stoke Mandeville Combined School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Stoke Mandeville Combined School have?

Stoke Mandeville Combined School has 218 pupils on roll.

What age range does Stoke Mandeville Combined School cover?

Stoke Mandeville Combined School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Stoke Mandeville Combined School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Stoke Mandeville Combined School?

Stoke Mandeville Combined School is at Lower Road, Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5XA.