Queensway School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Banbury, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.977 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Queensway School is a primary school in Banbury, Oxfordshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 June 2022. Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Queensway 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 | 3.977 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 6 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 3.977 miles, 7th longest of 73 Oxfordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance, where the middle figure was 1.23 miles.
- Reception's 2026 last distance was the longest of the 14 years with a published distance, further than in 2025 and 2012; the biggest move came from 2025 to 2026.
- Reception 2026 had 54 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Oxfordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Brantwood Rise, Banbury, OX16 9NF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 398 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 June 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are supported effectively at this inclusive school.”
- “Leaders and staff take care to get to know pupils well.”
- “Staff are ambitious for every pupil’s learning and know what to do to help pupils to achieve.”
To improve
- “This is not yet the case across all subjects.”
- “However, two key issues remain.”
- “While most pupils currently make good progress in reading, a few pupils, some of whom are pupils with SEND, are still catching up.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 August 2022 (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) | 74% | 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: 54 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 54 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 Oxfordshire.
- Orchard Fields Community School 0.4 mi Improved significantly
- Harriers Banbury Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury 0.6 mi Not judged
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Banbury 0.8 mi Good
- The Grange Community Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- St John's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good
- Hill View Primary School 1.0 mi Good
- William Morris Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published