Cippenham School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Slough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.091 miles
Published by Slough Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cippenham School is a primary school in Slough for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 September 2023. Slough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Cippenham 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 | 2.091 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
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.091 miles away, the 12th longest of 27 Slough primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance, nearer than in 2025 and in 2022.
- In 2026, Reception had 102 first-choice applications for 104 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 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
- Elmshott Lane, Cippenham, Slough, SL1 5RB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Slough
- Pupils on roll
- 998 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 September 2023
Strengths
- “This is a harmonious school where pupils are kind and considerate to one another.”
- “There are warm, respectful, and inclusive attitudes between everyone.”
- “School rules and rewards systems are clear and consistently followed, this helps pupils to be safe and enjoy learning.”
To improve
- “However, their approach to assessment is not yet consistent across all subjects.”
- “This means that sometimes teachers do not always have an exact understanding of what pupils already know.”
- “However, teachers have not yet identified precisely enough what vocabulary they want children to know by the end of Reception Year.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 October 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) | 59% | 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: 102 first-preference applications, 104 offers in total, 102 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.
- Western House Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Priory School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady of Peace Catholic Primary and Nursery School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Lynch Hill School Primary Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Montem Academy 1.4 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Claycots School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Phoenix Infant Academy 1.6 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published