The Pines School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Bracknell, Bracknell Forest
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.61 miles
Published by Bracknell Forest Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Pines School is a primary school in Bracknell, Bracknell Forest for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 January 2023. Bracknell Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
The Pines 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 | 0.61 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For 2026 Reception, the last child offered a place lived 0.61 miles away, the 4th shortest of 13 Bracknell Forest primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025.
- For 2026 Reception, there were 36 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 26 offers went to first-choice families, and 10 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 48% reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bracknell Forest schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hanworth Road, Hanworth, Bracknell, RG12 7WX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bracknell Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 285 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 January 2023
Strengths
- “An atmosphere of partnership and purpose can be felt throughout this school.”
- “There is a shared high ambition to ensure every pupil is an eager learner who achieves well.”
- “Staff prioritise developing caring relationships will pupils, providing thoughtful nurture and care.”
To improve
- “Leaders know that previous changes in leadership had been unsettling and that the curriculum and learning needed to be more ambitious.”
- “However, in some of the foundation subjects, leaders have not precisely identified exactly what knowledge pupils need to learn and in what order.”
- “Consequently, pupils have some gaps in their knowledge so they do not learn as much as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 March 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) | 48% | 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: 36 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 26 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 Bracknell Forest.
- St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School, Bracknell 0.2 mi School remains Good
- Wooden Hill Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Birch Hill Primary School and Nursery 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged
- Great Hollands Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Fox Hill Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Wildridings Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Jennett's Park CofE Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published