Waynflete Infants' School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Brackley, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Waynflete Infants' School is a primary school in Brackley, West Northamptonshire for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 19 September 2023. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Waynflete Infants' 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Ofsted's latest outcome was Requires improvement (19 September 2023); of the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire, 4 are Good and 4 have no current grade.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 124 of the 141 other West Northamptonshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 31 first-choice applications for 45 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 14 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 7.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, with 19.2 pupils per teacher; the middle figures across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire are 9.4% and 22.4.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Northamptonshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Waynflete Avenue, Brackley, NN13 6AF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 140 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “There is a warm, nurturing ethos at Waynflete.”
- “They have created an environment where pupils feel safe and secure.”
- “Pupils say, ‘The adults look after us here.”
To improve
- “The school wants the best for all its pupils, but the quality of education they receive is not good enough.”
- “The school has not set out exactly what pupils need to learn in all parts of the curriculum.”
- “However, some pupils do not always follow the classroom rules.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 31 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 31 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 Northamptonshire.
- Brackley Church of England Junior School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Bracken Leas Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Radstone Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Farthinghoe Primary School 3.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Croughton All Saints CofE Primary School 3.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Newbottle and Charlton Church of England Primary School 3.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greatworth Primary School 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Syresham St James CofE Primary School and Nursery 4.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published