Priory School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–11 · Slough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.687 miles
Published by Slough Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Priory School is a primary school in Slough for ages 3–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 12 November 2024. Slough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Priory School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 4.687 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 4.687 miles away, the longest of 27 Slough primary schools with a published last distance, and further than in 2025.
- Reception 2026 had 52 first-choice applications for 56 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 49% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 49% expected-standard figure for 2024/25 was the lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Slough that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Slough schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Orchard Avenue, Slough, SL1 6HE
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Slough
- Pupils on roll
- 591 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 12 November 2024
Strengths
- “Priory School is highly inclusive.”
- “Pupils feel nurtured and safe.”
- “A strong sense of community means that pupils trust adults to support them if they have a worry.”
To improve
- “While pupils try their best, not all achieve as well as they could.”
- “The school is in the process of refining the curriculum to ensure that the important knowledge and skills that pupils need to learn have been identified and ordered.”
- “In some subjects, particularly those in review, teaching is less precise.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 December 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 49% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 52 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 52 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Slough.
- Our Lady of Peace Catholic Primary and Nursery School 0.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cippenham School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Lynch Hill School Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Western House Academy 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Claycots School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Phoenix Infant Academy 1.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published