Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Slough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.867 miles
Published by Slough Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Slough for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 July 2025. Slough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery 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 | 1.867 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.867 miles away, the 12th shortest of 27 Slough primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2022, and the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 77 first-choice applications for 89 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 12 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Slough schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Penn Road, Slough, SL2 1PH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Slough
- Pupils on roll
- 684 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 July 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils achieve exceptionally well at this inspirational school.”
- “Staff have the highest expectations for what pupils will learn.”
- “By the end of key stage 2, pupils’ outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics are consistently high.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 September 2025 (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) | 83% | 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: 77 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 77 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 Slough.
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Phoenix Infant Academy 0.5 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- The Godolphin Junior Academy 0.5 mi Improved significantly
- Claycots School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- James Elliman Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Khalsa Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Lynch Hill School Primary Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published