Helmdon Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Brackley, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Helmdon Primary School is a primary school in Brackley, West Northamptonshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 March 2024. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Helmdon 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 89% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), but 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 89% was the highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire that have results.
- For Reception 2026 there were 19 first-choice applications for 18 offers; all 18 went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (5%) was not offered a place.
- There are 17.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.4 across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Northamptonshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- 21 Station Road, Helmdon, Brackley, NN13 5QT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 126 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 March 2024
Strengths
- “The school’s core beliefs of ‘happiness, perseverance and success’ encapsulate the caring, aspirational ethos at Helmdon.”
- “Pupils feel safe and secure in this nurturing environment.”
- “They say that staff motivate them and encourage them to do their best.”
To improve
- “However, the school is in the early stages of delivering some of these changes.”
- “The new approach to helping pupils remember their prior learning has not yet had the impact that the school intends, in some subjects.”
- “Some pupils cannot recall the important knowledge that they have been taught in sufficient detail, in those areas of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 May 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) | 89% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 18 offers in total, 18 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 West Northamptonshire.
- Greatworth Primary School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Radstone Primary School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Syresham St James CofE Primary School and Nursery 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Culworth Church of England Primary Academy 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bracken Leas Primary School 3.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Brackley Church of England Junior School 3.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Farthinghoe Primary School 3.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Waynflete Infants' School 4.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published