The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Holmer Green First School and Pre-School

URN 110268 · Primary · Community school · Buckinghamshire

Watchet Lane, High Wycombe, HP15 6UG

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 52 families named Holmer Green First School and Pre-School as their first preference, and the school made 57 offers.

That is 0.91 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 25% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 25% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.06 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 52 116 57 0.91
2024 44 99 44 1.00
2023 53 125 57 0.93
2022 50 113 53 0.94
2021 70 143 60 1.17
2020 56 153 59 0.95
2019 57 159 58 0.98
2018 60 143 60 1.00
2017 46 113 59 0.78
2016 46 124 53 0.87
2015 46 127 59 0.78
2014 49 131 60 0.82

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 30 November 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 6.6 6.2 0.0 0.4 6.1%
2023/24 7.6 6.6 0.0 1.0 13.2%
2022/23 8.2 4.2 1.0 3.0 48.8%
2021/22 8.8 7.0 0.8 1.0 20.5%
2020/21 8.4 5.8 2.6 0.0 31.0%
2019/20 7.6 6.1 0.0 1.5 19.7%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Buckinghamshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Holmer Green Infant School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 141 live postcodes across 4.545 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Curzon Church of England Combined School and Holmer Green Junior School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

10 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Holmer Green First School and Pre-School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Holmer Green First School and Pre-School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.