The School Record

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

The John Hampden School

URN 110293 · Primary · Community school · Buckinghamshire

Wharf Road, Aylesbury, HP22 6HF

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, 71 families named The John Hampden School as their first preference, and the school made 83 offers.

That is 0.86 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 14% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 14% 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 0.91 in 2021–2022 and 0.88 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 71 146 83 0.86
2024 61 135 67 0.91
2023 97 172 90 1.08
2022 87 150 90 0.97
2021 75 132 87 0.86
2020 85 164 90 0.94
2019 89 146 90 0.99
2018 80 136 80 1.00
2017 90 154 90 1.00
2016 64 123 73 0.88
2015 72 151 88 0.82
2014 100 166 118 0.85

“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, 7 February 2024

School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next

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 13.0 10.0 0.0 3.0 23.1%
2023/24 13.1 12.3 0.0 0.8 6.1%
2022/23 13.0 9.5 1.6 1.9 26.9%
2021/22 14.1 10.6 0.0 3.5 24.8%
2020/21 13.6 12.3 0.8 0.5 9.6%
2019/20 13.7 12.7 0.0 1.0 7.3%

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 (The John Hampden School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 369 live postcodes across 43.304 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Aston Clinton School, Halton Community Combined School, Lee Common Church of England School and Wendover Church of England Junior School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

12 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 The John Hampden 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 The John Hampden 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.