Cutteslowe Primary School

Cutteslowe Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating across all key areas. The school environment is calm and supportive, with strong relationships between pupils and staff. Pupils express feeling safe and valued, engaging actively in their education and extra-curricular activities. The leadership team has made significant strides in enhancing the quality of education, ensuring an ambitious and well-structured curriculum that prioritizes reading and other core subjects. However, there are some areas that require further attention to ensure consistency across the wider curriculum, particularly in foundation subjects.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between pupils and staff.
• High expectations for pupils set by leaders and staff.
• Effective safeguarding arrangements.
• Ambitious and well-planned curriculum.
• Vibrant extra-curricular opportunities.
• Children in early years receive good teaching across all areas of learning.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent embedding of the curriculum in foundation subjects.
• Some teachers move pupils’ learning on too quickly, affecting understanding.
• In key stage 1, some reading materials do not match phonics learning closely enough.

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 Cutteslowe Primary School attended 94.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.4% 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, 1.0% of pupils at Cutteslowe 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 Cutteslowe Primary School had 20.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.7% 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, 23.0% of pupils at Cutteslowe Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.9% 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 2024–25 Cutteslowe Primary School received £7,650 and spent £7,085 for each of its 303 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £221,000 (£731 per pupil).

Across all 30 schools of River Learning Trust, income was £8,007 and spending £7,763 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Cutteslowe Primary School is part of River Learning Trust, which runs 30 schools. The nearest others:

• The Cherwell School Oxford
• Wolvercote Primary School Oxford
• The Swan School Oxford
• New Marston Primary School Oxford
• Edward Feild Primary School Kidlington
• Gosford Hill School Kidlington
• Barton Park Primary School Oxford
• Cheney School Oxford
• Beckley Church of England Primary School Oxford
• Bayards Hill School Oxford

What is Cutteslowe Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Cutteslowe Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2025.

When was Cutteslowe Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Cutteslowe Primary School was last inspected in July 2025.

How many pupils does Cutteslowe Primary School have?

Cutteslowe Primary School has 304 pupils on roll.

What age range does Cutteslowe Primary School cover?

Cutteslowe Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 60% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Cutteslowe Primary School?

Cutteslowe Primary School is at Wren Road, Cutteslowe, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 7SX.