Oldbrook First School and Nursery
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Milton Keynes
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Milton Keynes City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Oldbrook First School and Nursery is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 July 2023. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Oldbrook First School and Nursery 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 had 32 first-choice applications for 35 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 13th lowest of 75 Milton Keynes primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 3 offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
- 31.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 40.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes.
- There are 18.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 17.4 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Milton Keynes schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Illingworth Place, Oldbrook, Milton Keynes, MK6 2NH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 181 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 July 2023
Strengths
- “The school’s vision, ‘together we make a difference’, comes to life through its inclusive and welcoming culture.”
- “Pupils feel special, valued and safe as soon as they join the school.”
- “They know and understand the school’s values and take great pride in earning golden stickers when they work hard, play fairly and show kindness towards each other.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, leaders are yet to finalise their curriculum thinking about the important content that needs to be taught.”
- “However, in a few subjects, this is still developing.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 32 first-preference applications, 35 offers in total, 32 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 Milton Keynes.
- Jubilee Wood Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Falconhurst School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Willows School and Early Years Centre 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Orchard Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- New Chapter Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Summerfield School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shepherdswell Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Germander Park School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published