The School Record

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

Lee Common Church of England School

URN 110428 · Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Buckinghamshire

Lee Common, Great Missenden, HP16 9JH

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, 5 families named Lee Common Church of England School as their first preference, and the school made 5 offers.

No per-place figure is published for this year: the school offered 5 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 5 31 5 -
2024 7 29 7 -
2023 12 45 13 0.92
2022 5 29 5 -
2021 6 40 10 0.60
2020 9 32 10 0.90
2019 18 44 21 0.86
2018 9 28 10 0.90
2017 11 50 13 0.85
2016 12 34 15 0.80
2015 13 54 19 0.68
2014 20 49 24 0.83

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 19 September 2023

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

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 4.5 2.1 1.2 1.2 53.3%
2023/24 1.1 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 3.0 0.6 1.8 0.6 80.0%
2021/22 3.9 2.2 0.0 1.7 43.6%
2020/21 3.9 3.5 0.0 0.4 10.3%
2019/20 3.2 2.0 1.0 0.2 37.5%

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 (Lee Common CE School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 72 live postcodes across 21.850 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Great Missenden CofE Combined School, The John Hampden School and Wendover Church of England Junior 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 Lee Common Church of England 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 Lee Common Church of England 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.