Gateway Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Carterton, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.264 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Gateway Primary School is a primary school in Carterton, Oxfordshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 February 2023. Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Gateway 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 | 3.264 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 3.264 miles away: 12th longest of the 73 Oxfordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.23 miles).
- That 2026 Reception distance was further from the school than in 2025 and further than in 2012, though it has swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 drew 48 first-choice applications for 44 offers; all 44 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 65% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Oxfordshire.
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
- Netheravon Close, Carterton, OX18 3SF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 300 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are flying high at this thoughtful and caring community school.”
- “Despite this, pupils have a strong sense of belonging.”
- “One pupil said, ‘Someone is always there for you.”
To improve
- “In other subjects, such as history and art, precise knowledge and vocabulary have not yet been identified, which leads to some gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”
- “This means that pupils in these subjects are not always achieving as well as they could.”
- “When teaching the phonics programme, a small number of staff are still developing their expertise to make sure that all lessons are consistently strong.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 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) | 65% | 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: 48 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 44 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.
- Carterton Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Carterton 0.5 mi Good
- Edith Moorhouse Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St John the Evangelist CofE VA Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained
- Brize Norton Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England School, Alvescot 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bampton CofE Primary School 2.7 mi Good
- Clanfield CofE Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published