Drayton Community Primary School

Drayton Community Primary School continues to demonstrate good performance and a commitment to its community values. The school fosters a welcoming and engaging environment where students take pride in their education and display positive behavior. With high aspirations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs, the curriculum is designed to build knowledge progressively, enhancing pupils' learning experiences through various extracurricular activities and community-based initiatives.

Strengths

• Pupils are proud to attend the school and embrace its values.
• Curriculum is well-designed and ambitious, supporting all pupils effectively.
• Staff provide strong support, particularly for pupils with SEND.
• Pupils demonstrate high engagement and enthusiasm in lessons.
• Strong emphasis on reading culture across the school.
• Good behavior and positive relationships among pupils.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils struggle to recall number and calculation strategies fluently, impacting their learning in mathematics.
• A few staff require further training on the phonics programme.

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 Drayton Community Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.6% 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, 3.0% of pupils at Drayton Community 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 Drayton Community Primary School had 21.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 52.1% 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, 16.0% of pupils at Drayton Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.1% 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 Drayton Community Primary School received £7,388 and spent £7,285 for each of its 194 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £161,000 (£832 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 Drayton Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Drayton Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2023.

When was Drayton Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Drayton Community Primary School was last inspected in November 2023.

How many pupils does Drayton Community Primary School have?

Drayton Community Primary School has 194 pupils on roll.

What age range does Drayton Community Primary School cover?

Drayton Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Drayton Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 47% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Drayton Community Primary School?

Drayton Community Primary School is at Hilliat Fields, Drayton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4JF.