Woodmancote School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.70 miles
Published by Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Woodmancote School is a primary school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 September 2023. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Woodmancote 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 | 0.70 mi |
| 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
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.70 miles away, the 21st shortest of 88 Gloucestershire primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The Reception 2026 last distance was about the same as in 2025 and nearer than in 2013, though it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, 76 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 56 offers went to first-choice families and 20 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 72% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%); 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Station Road, Woodmancote, Cheltenham, GL52 9HN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 418 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 September 2023
Strengths
- “Woodmancote is a welcoming school where everyone gets along.”
- “Pupils flourish because they learn in a caring and nurturing environment.”
- “The school’s values of ‘belong, aspire and achieve’ shine through in all pupils do.”
To improve
- “However, for the weakest readers, staff do not routinely develop pupils’ fluency when they listen to them read.”
- “This means that a minority of pupils do not become fluent readers quickly enough.”
- “However, in a few subjects, improvements to the curriculum are recent.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 October 2023 (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) | 72% | 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: 76 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 56 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.
- Bishops Cleeve Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grangefield Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Gotherington Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Swindon Village Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Prestbury St Mary's Church of England Junior School 2.6 mi School remains Good
- St Mary's Church of England Infant School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Oakwood Primary School 2.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Dunalley Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
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