Priory Common School

Priory Common School is performing well, rated as good overall, with notable strengths in the quality of education, behaviour, and personal development. The school has successfully implemented an ambitious curriculum that particularly excels in phonics, reading, and writing, resulting in higher pupil achievements. Students enjoy a supportive learning environment, participate actively in school initiatives, and demonstrate positive social interactions and self-confidence. However, the school has seen a drop from its previous outstanding rating during its last inspection, indicating areas for growth and improvement in curriculum coherence and planning.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, confident, and take pride in their work.
• Leaders have developed effective strategies to support pupils with SEND.
• Curriculum is ambitious and works well in phonics, reading, and writing.
• Most pupils behave well and understand how to resolve conflicts maturely.
• Early years provision helps most children get off to a good start.

Areas for Improvement

• Some foundation subjects in key stage 1 and early years curriculum are not coherently planned.
• Governors' monitoring of safeguarding could be improved.

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 Priory Common School attended 94.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.8% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Priory Common 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 Priory Common School had 14.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 24.6% of pupils at Priory Common School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 13.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit 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 Priory Common School received £13,321 and spent £12,920 for each of its 61 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £230,000 (£3,779 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 Priory Common School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Priory Common School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Priory Common School last inspected by Ofsted?

Priory Common School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Priory Common School have?

Priory Common School has 61 pupils on roll.

What age range does Priory Common School cover?

Priory Common School for pupils aged 4 to 7.

Where is Priory Common School?

Priory Common School is at Scatterill Close, Bradwell, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK13 9EZ.