Parklands Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Chichester, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.66 miles
Published by West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Parklands Community Primary School is a primary school in Chichester, West Sussex for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 November 2023. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Parklands Community 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 | 1.66 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 1.66 miles from the school, the 39th longest of 87 West Sussex primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception last distance in 2026 was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2018, with the biggest swing between years from 2023 to 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 50 first-choice applications for 58 offers; 47 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 65% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Sussex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Durnford Close, Chichester, PO19 3AG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 426 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils value this school’s kind and caring ethos.”
- “They state that everyone is very welcome.”
- “The school is determined that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), learn the knowledge and skills they need to be successful.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the important knowledge that pupils need to learn is not always identified precisely enough.”
- “This means that teachers are not clear what to teach and when.”
- “Furthermore, some parts of the curriculum are not sequenced in the most sensible order so that pupils can build understanding systematically.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2024 (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: 50 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 47 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 West Sussex.
- St. Joseph's Infant School 0.3 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St. Joseph's CofE Junior School 0.3 mi Good
- Jessie Younghusband Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Richard's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Fishbourne CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Portfield Primary Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kingsham Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Rumboldswhyke CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published