Sonning Common Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Reading, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.264 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sonning Common Primary School is a primary school in Reading, Oxfordshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 September 2023. Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Sonning Common 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 | 2.264 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 6 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 14% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 2.264 miles away, 22nd longest of 73 Oxfordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.23 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 35 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (17%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meals: 19.5% of pupils are eligible, against a middle figure of 8.2% across 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
- Grove Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9RJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 292 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 September 2023
Strengths
- “The school is a kind and respectful community.”
- “These values permeate through the school’s provision.”
- “Pupils are caring and helpful and can express how they feel included and welcomed.”
To improve
- “However, in some of the foundation subjects, pupils do not always have the knowledge and confidence to apply the information and vocabulary they have been taught.”
- “This means they have gaps in their understanding and that their knowledge does not build as well as it could, from one year to the next.”
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) | 70% | 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: 35 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Kidmore End Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi Good
- Peppard Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Valley Road School 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stoke Row CofE Primary School 3.1 mi Good
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Henley-on-Thames 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Shiplake Church of England School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Badgemore Primary School 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Checkendon Church of England (A) Primary School 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published