Queen Emma's Primary School

Queen Emma's Primary School is performing well overall, with a consistent 'Good' rating across most areas, including the quality of education, leadership and management, and behaviour and attitudes. The school shines particularly in personal development and early years provision, both rated as 'Outstanding'. The community atmosphere fosters a nurturing environment where pupils feel safe and motivated to learn. The school effectively integrates pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, ensuring they achieve alongside their peers. However, some pupils face challenges with retention of knowledge, and attendance remains a concern for certain groups, impacting their learning experiences.

Strengths

• Nurturing and supportive learning environment.
• Strong community spirit contributes to pupil happiness and safety.
• Ambitious and well-designed curriculum that enables good pupil achievements.
• Outstanding personal development opportunities for pupils.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs.
• High quality early years provision that prepares children well for Year 1.
• Vibrant approach to teaching reading with effective phonics instruction.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent retention of essential knowledge in some subjects.
• Low attendance rates for some pupils, impacting their learning.

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 Queen Emma's Primary School attended 92.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 23.7% 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, 6.0% of pupils at Queen Emma's Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Queen Emma's Primary School had 18.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 34.4% 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, 16.8% of pupils at Queen Emma's Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.1% 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 2024–25 Queen Emma's Primary School received £7,368 and spent £7,583 for each of its 182 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £255,000 (£1,399 per pupil).

Across all 3 schools of The Mill Academy, income was £7,456 and spending £7,506 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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All schools in Witney · Oxfordshire local authority: places and applications

Queen Emma's Primary School is part of The Mill Academy, which runs 3 schools. The nearest others:

• The Henry Box School Witney
• Finstock Church of England Primary School Chipping Norton

What is Queen Emma's Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Queen Emma's Primary School is Good, from an inspection in June 2024.

When was Queen Emma's Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Queen Emma's Primary School was last inspected in June 2024.

How many pupils does Queen Emma's Primary School have?

Queen Emma's Primary School has 179 pupils on roll.

What age range does Queen Emma's Primary School cover?

Queen Emma's Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 24% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Queen Emma's Primary School?

Queen Emma's Primary School is at Burwell Drive, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 5JW.