Chesterton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Bicester, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.256 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2013–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chesterton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is a primary school in Bicester, Oxfordshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 March 2023. Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2013 to 2026 entry.
Chesterton Church of England Voluntary Aided 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 | 2.256 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.256 miles away, the 23rd longest of the 73 Oxfordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception 2026 distance was further than in 2025 but nearer than in 2013; the biggest swing came between 2020 and 2021.
- In Reception 2026 there were 25 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% 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
- Alchester Road, Chesterton, Bicester, OX26 1UN
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 201 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and confident at this small village school.”
- “They thrive on the many sports activities available such as badminton, athletics, hockey and multi-skills.”
- “From trips to football matches to a school equestrian team, experiences are thoughtful and aim at building pupils’ self-belief.”
To improve
- “However, for a small number of pupils with SEND, this support is not consistently strong because provision is not matched to pupils’ needs as closely as it could be.”
- “However, reading books to help pupils learn to read are not always matched to the sounds that pupils have learned.”
- “This means that a small number of pupils do not learn to read as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 May 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) | 63% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 25 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.
- St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School 0.9 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- King's Meadow Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bicester 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Brookside Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged
- Graven Hill Primary School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Bure Park Primary School 1.8 mi Good
- Longfields Primary and Nursery School 1.9 mi School remains Good
- Langford Village Community Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good