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Horspath Church of England Primary School

Primary Ages 4-11 141 pupils Oxford
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Horspath Church of England Primary School is an academy converter in Oxford for pupils aged 4 to 11. It has a Church of England religious character. It has 141 pupils on roll. In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 4-11
Religion Church of England
Address Blenheim Road
Horspath
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX33 1RY
Phone 01865872702
Reference Number 144432

General Makeup

Number of pupils 141
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 50.35%
Girls: 49.65%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 6.4%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 7.8%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 28.2
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 25
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 30

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 10 10 20
2 8 12 20
3 9 10 19
4 7 13 20
5 9 7 16
6 15 9 24

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 75.9%
White, Other 6.4%
Pakistani 4.3%
Asian, Other 4.3%
Mixed, Other 2.8%
White & Black (Caribbean) 2.1%
White & Asian 1.4%
Unclassified 1.4%
Irish 1.4%

Overall Ofsted Rating
Last Report Date 17 Dec 2024 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
17 Dec 2024 School inspection
10 Mar 2020 School inspection
05 May 2017 Academy conversion letter
09 Oct 2012 Full inspection:
Previously as Horspath Church of England Primary School
07 Jan 2011 Interim assessment
27 Mar 2008 Full inspection:
24 Nov 2003 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 67%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 5%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 106
Maths 105

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading -2.2
Writing -1.6
Maths 0.1

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Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

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Progress Scores

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 22 1
Third Preference 6 0
From another Local Authority 0 0

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Horspath Church of England Primary School had 139 pupils for 140 places. 1 places (0.7%) were unfilled.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Wheatley Primary” planning area

Oxfordshire counted 156 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 173 in 2029–30, up 11%.

20172018201920212022202320242025
Places 140140140140140140140140
Pupils 0136142137138144139139
Unfilled 100.0%2.9%0.0%2.1%1.4%0.0%0.7%0.7%

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 Horspath Church of England Primary School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

2018201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 3.0%2.2%1.7%4.9%4.5%5.2%4.1%
Unauthorised absence 0.8%0.7%0.6%1.2%1.2%1.7%1.6%
Severely absent pupils 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.8%1.6%0.0%

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, 1.4% of pupils at Horspath Church of England Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

20182019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 0.03.50.00.00.00.00.02.2
Permanent exclusions 00000000

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 Horspath Church of England Primary School had 23.5 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

201820192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 10.512.214.011.810.810.811.511.310.3
Teachers who left state teaching 5.6%30.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%14.9%33.3%0.0%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 50.0%33.3%–0.0%75.0%75.0%71.4%50.0%–
Sick days per teacher 2.48.0–0.04.62.718.11.8–

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, 14.9% of pupils at Horspath Church of England Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Speech, language and communication needs 6 3
Social, emotional and mental health 6 0
Autistic spectrum disorder 1 3
Moderate learning difficulty 3 1
Other difficulty or disability 1 1
Physical disability 2 0
No specialist assessment of need 1 0
Specific learning difficulty 1 0

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 Horspath Church of England Primary School received £6,825 and spent £6,784 for each of its 138 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £80,000 (£579 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

2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue reserve £83,000£90,000£157,000£144,000£101,000£72,000£80,000
per pupil £586£644£1,143£1,043£709£524£579
In-year balance £2,000£3,000-£67,000£16,000-£49,000-£29,000£6,000
per pupil £17£19-£492£116-£343-£214£41

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.

Name Distance
St Francis Church of England Primary School
Horspath Road, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 2QT
1.25 miles
Wheatley Nursery School
Littleworth Road, Oxford, OX33 1NN
1.26 miles
Wheatley Church of England Primary School
Littleworth Road, Wheatley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX33 1NN
1.26 miles
Wood Farm Primary School
Titup Hall Drive, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8QQ
1.43 miles
Slade Nursery School
Titup Hall Drive, Oxford, OX3 8QQ
1.51 miles
Tyndale Community School
William Morris Close, Cowley Marsh, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 2JX
1.57 miles
Headington Quarry Nursery School
Quarry School Place, Oxford, OX3 8LH
1.61 miles
Pegasus School
Field Avenue, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6RQ
1.64 miles
Sandhills Community Primary School
Terrett Avenue, Sandhills, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8FN
1.65 miles
Garsington Church of England Primary School
Wheatley Road, Garsington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX44 9EW
1.67 miles
Orchard Meadow Primary School
Wesley Close, Oxford, OX4 6BG
1.74 miles
Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary School
Oxford Road, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 2LF
1.76 miles
St Christopher's Church of England School, Cowley
Temple Road, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 2HB
1.79 miles
Bayards Hill School
Waynflete Road, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9NU
1.81 miles
Windmill Primary School
Margaret Road, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8NG
1.82 miles
Church Cowley St James Church of England Primary School
Bartholomew Road, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3QH
1.96 miles
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, Littlemore
Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6LD
2 miles
Windale Primary School
Windale Avenue, Oxford, OX4 6JD
2.01 miles
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Oxford
London Road, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9ED
2.07 miles
St Frideswide Church of England Primary School
Cricket Road, Oxford, OX4 3DJ
2.35 miles
Name Distance
John Watson School
Littleworth Road, Wheatley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX33 1NN
1.26 miles
Kings Education (Oxford)
St Joseph's Hall, Temple Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 2UJ
1.68 miles
Mabel Prichard School
Cuddesdon Way, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6SB
1.68 miles
Endeavour Academy, Oxford
Waynflete Road, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8DD
1.69 miles
Oxfordshire Hospital School
61-63 Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6SB
1.71 miles
Wheatley Park School
Holton, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX33 1QH
1.77 miles
Oxford Spires Academy
Glanville Road, Oxford, OX4 2AU
2.05 miles
Orion Academy
Knights Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6DQ
2.2 miles
Cheney School
Cheney Lane, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 7QH
2.28 miles
The Oxford Academy
Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6JZ
2.3 miles
Greyfriars Catholic School
Cricket Road, Cowley, Greyfriars Catholic School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3DR
2.35 miles
Headington School Oxford
Headington Road, Oxford, OX3 7TD
2.39 miles
Ruskin College
Dunstan Road, Old Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9BZ
2.51 miles
The Iffley Academy
Iffley Turn, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4DU
2.74 miles
Oxford International College
1-5 London Place, Oxford, OX4 1BD
2.93 miles
Magdalen College School
Cowley Place, Oxford, OX4 1DZ
3.14 miles
The Swan School
Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 7WP
3.59 miles
Oxford Media & Business School
1 Cambridge Terrace, Oxford, OX1 1RR
3.72 miles
Chilworth House Upper School
Grooms Farm, Thame Road, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JP
3.78 miles
The Eckersley School of English
14 Friars Entry, Oxford, OX1 2BZ
3.88 miles

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

How many pupils does Horspath Church of England Primary School have?

Horspath Church of England Primary School has 141 pupils on roll.

What age range does Horspath Church of England Primary School cover?

Horspath Church of England Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Horspath Church of England Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Horspath Church of England Primary School?

Horspath Church of England Primary School is at Blenheim Road, Horspath, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX33 1RY.

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