Loughton Manor First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Milton Keynes
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Milton Keynes City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Loughton Manor First School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 July 2024. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Loughton Manor First 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out in all 4 earlier years.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years, the biggest move being from 2024 to 2025.
- In 2026 Reception entry, 46 first-choice applications for 52 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2026 Reception entry, there were 0.9 first choices per offer, the 10th lowest of 75 Milton Keynes primary schools.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Milton Keynes schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Paynes Drive, Loughton, Milton Keynes, MK5 8FA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this energetic school.”
- “They live out the school’s mantra of ‘happy and safe’.”
- “They know who to talk to if they have any worries and that staff will help them if they need it.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the curriculum is newer and is not yet as secure.”
- “In these subjects, pupils are not consistently building their knowledge and understanding as well as leaders intend.”
- “Further improvements are being made to ensure that learning consistently meets the school’s high ambition.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 46 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 46 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 Milton Keynes.
- Loughton School 0.3 mi Not judged
- Holmwood School 0.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Two Mile Ash School 0.7 mi Outstanding
- Glastonbury Thorn School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ashbrook School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ the Sower Ecumenical Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Summerfield School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Whitehouse Primary School 1.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published