The School Record

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

Thomas Hickman School

URN 110313 · Primary · Community school · Buckinghamshire

Belgrave Road, Aylesbury, HP19 9HP

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 60 families named Thomas Hickman School as their first preference, and the school made 60 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 53% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.73 in 2021–2022 and 0.91 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 60 122 60 1.00
2024 48 135 59 0.81
2023 52 122 57 0.91
2022 43 125 59 0.73
2021 42 111 57 0.74
2020 45 92 61 0.74
2019 36 85 55 0.65
2018 35 75 53 0.66
2017 48 80 59 0.81
2016 45 69 59 0.76
2015 37 62 59 0.63
2014 51 85 60 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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 inspections from 2019 to 202520192025

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 5 February 2025

Improved significantly

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 11 September 2019

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 52.0% 6.0% 103.0 101.0
2023/24 53.0% 3.0% 103.0 103.0
2022/23 53.0% 13.0% 103.0 104.0

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 17.7 17.7 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 22.4 14.5 5.9 2.0 35.3%
2022/23 24.2 14.4 5.0 4.8 40.5%
2021/22 24.8 15.2 6.7 2.9 38.7%
2020/21 21.0 18.6 1.0 1.4 11.4%
2019/20 20.9 16.6 2.8 1.5 20.6%

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 (Thomas Hickman School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 285 live postcodes across 4.185 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School, The Aylesbury Vale Academy and Thomas Hickman School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

36 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.

Buckinghamshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Thomas Hickman School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 285 live postcodes across 4.185 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School, The Aylesbury Vale Academy and Thomas Hickman School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

36 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 Thomas Hickman 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 Thomas Hickman 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.