Marcham Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.392 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Marcham Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School is a primary school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 June 2023. Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Marcham Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) 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 | 0.392 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.392 miles away, the 6th shortest of 73 Oxfordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.23 miles).
- Reception distances have swung sharply between some years; the 2026 figure was nearer the school than in 2025, and was the shortest of the 15 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 43% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest 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
- Morland Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6PY
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 168 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this welcoming and nurturing school.”
- “They describe the school as ‘amazing’, ‘fantastic’ and ‘friendly’.”
- “Staff have high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
To improve
- “Some subjects are at an earlier stage of development.”
- “In these subjects, the exact sequence of learning is not yet identified precisely enough.”
- “In these subjects, leaders have only recently established the order that pupils need to learn key knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 September 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) | 43% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Drayton Community Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Caldecott Primary School 2.0 mi Good
- Thameside Primary School 2.0 mi Good
- Carswell Community Primary School 2.1 mi Standards maintained
- St Nicolas Church of England Primary School, Abingdon 2.4 mi School remains Good
- Dry Sandford Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good
- Dunmore Primary School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Edmund's Catholic Primary School 2.9 mi Not judged