Blakeney Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Blakeney, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Blakeney Primary School is a primary school in Blakeney, Gloucestershire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 2 July 2024. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Blakeney Primary 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 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 7 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 17% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Gloucestershire.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, with 10 first-choice applications for 11 offers, whereas places ran out in all 7 earlier years with a published outcome.
- There are 17 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.4 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gloucestershire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- High Street, Blakeney, GL15 4EB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 75 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 2 July 2024
Strengths
- “Blakeney Primary School is a happy community where pupils and staff embrace the ethos of ‘All different, All equal’.”
- “Pupils have warm trusting relationships with adults and feel safe in the school.”
- “The well-being ambassadors are proud to be role models.”
To improve
- “Despite this positive culture, the quality of education that pupils receive is not good.”
- “Leaders have set out the intention for an ambitious curriculum but, in some subjects, this is not implemented effectively.”
- “In these subjects, pupils are not able to recall their learning or make links to previous knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 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) | 17% | 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: 10 first-preference applications, 11 offers in total, 10 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 Gloucestershire.
- Yorkley Primary School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Soudley School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Primrose Hill Church of England Primary Academy 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pillowell Community Primary School 2.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Severnbanks Primary School 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Parkend Primary School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Sharpness Primary School 3.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lydney Church of England Community School 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
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