The Willows School and Early Years Centre
Primary · Community school · Ages 0–7 · 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 🔒
The Willows School and Early Years Centre is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 0–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 4 July 2023. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
The Willows School and Early Years Centre 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
- In 2026 every Reception applicant was offered a place, as at 67 of the 77 other Milton Keynes primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In Reception 2026 there were 25 first-choice applications for 25 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 40.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 34.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes.
- The school has 18.7 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
- Fishermead Boulevard, Fishermead, Milton Keynes, MK6 2LP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 0–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 174 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 4 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this inclusive school.”
- “They trust that adults in the school will help them be the best they can be.”
- “Pupils meet the high expectations that adults have for them in both their learning and their conduct around the school.”
To improve
- “Leaders have not yet completed their work on changing the curriculum.”
- “Due to this, there are a small number of non-core subjects that are not as well sequenced.”
- “This means pupils are not learning as precisely as they could be through the entire curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 25 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 25 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.
- Orchard Academy 0.2 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- Jubilee Wood Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Shepherdswell Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Falconhurst School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oldbrook First School and Nursery 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Downs Barn School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Southwood School 1.1 mi School remains Good
- Germander Park School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published