The School Record

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

Whaddon CofE School

URN 110415 · Primary · Voluntary aided school · Buckinghamshire

Stock Lane, Milton Keynes, MK17 0LS

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, 4 families named Whaddon CofE School as their first preference, and the school made 4 offers.

No per-place figure is published for this year: the school offered 4 places, too few for a ratio to mean anything.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 4 13 4 -
2024 5 16 6 -
2023 10 17 10 1.00
2022 15 33 10 1.50
2021 15 31 10 1.50
2020 14 31 15 0.93
2019 10 21 11 0.91
2018 16 27 17 0.94
2017 16 24 16 1.00
2016 17 29 16 1.06
2015 9 19 9 -
2014 9 19 10 0.90

“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 inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 21 April 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 3 October 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

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 - - - -
2023/24 - - - -
2022/23 - - - -

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 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 5.1 4.0 0.0 1.1 21.6%
2022/23 4.1 3.1 1.0 0.0 24.4%
2021/22 4.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 50.0%
2020/21 2.8 1.8 1.0 0.0 35.7%
2019/20 2.8 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0%

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 (Whaddon CE School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 48 live postcodes across 22.846 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Great Horwood Church of England School and Whaddon CofE School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

1 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 (Whaddon CE School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 48 live postcodes across 22.846 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Great Horwood Church of England School and Whaddon CofE School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

1 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 Whaddon CofE 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 Whaddon CofE 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.