Priory Common School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · 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 🔒
Priory Common School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 28 January 2025. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Priory Common 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 | 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 14 first-choice applications for 15 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 14.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 15.5 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
- Scatterill Close, Bradwell, Milton Keynes, MK13 9EZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 61 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 28 January 2025
Strengths
- “The school is a happy, vibrant and safe place.”
- “Pupils develop confidence through their strong and respectful relationships with the staff.”
- “The school strives hard to understand the needs of the pupils to ensure that they are supported well.”
To improve
- “The school has yet to check the impact of the curriculum changes to ensure that pupils are gaining deep levels of knowledge in all subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 14 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 14 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.
- Bradwell Village School 0.1 mi Good
- Heelands School 0.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Summerfield School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stanton School 0.8 mi School remains Outstanding
- Germander Park School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Pepper Hill School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- New Bradwell Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Southwood School 1.1 mi School remains Good