East Oxford Primary School

East Oxford Primary School is performing well, with effective actions taken to maintain the quality of education since its previous inspection. Pupils demonstrate happiness and safety within a supportive environment where kindness and respect are integral to their interactions. The school provides a well-designed curriculum, fostering hard work and producing quality outcomes. Additionally, creative extracurricular activities enhance pupils' learning experiences and promote community involvement.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy and behave well.
• The curriculum is interesting and well-designed.
• Strong focus on reading and phonics leading to good outcomes.
• Teachers have secure subject knowledge and create engaging lessons.
• Extensive extracurricular activities enhance learning.
• Effective identification and support for pupils with special educational needs.
• Strong community ties and opportunities for pupils to showcase their work.

Areas for Improvement

• Opportunities for early writing practice are inconsistent.
• Some tasks are too difficult for a minority of pupils, impacting their fluency in writing.
• Not all pupils are consistently encouraged to develop deeper thinking skills.

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 East Oxford Primary School attended 93.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.7% 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, 0.7% of pupils at East Oxford Primary 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 East Oxford Primary School had 16.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.9% 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, 10.1% of pupils at East Oxford Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

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 East Oxford Primary School received £7,287 and spent £7,608 for each of its 263 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £15,000 (£57 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 East Oxford Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for East Oxford Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was East Oxford Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

East Oxford Primary School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does East Oxford Primary School have?

East Oxford Primary School has 278 pupils on roll.

What age range does East Oxford Primary School cover?

East Oxford Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are East Oxford Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 78% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is East Oxford Primary School?

East Oxford Primary School is at Union Street, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 1JP.