Rickley Park Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Bletchley, 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 🔒
Rickley Park Primary School is a primary school in Bletchley, Milton Keynes for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 May 2022. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Rickley Park Primary 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 Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out in 3 of the 4 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 47 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 47% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths figure was the lowest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes that have results.
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
- Rickley Lane, Bletchley, MK3 6EW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 447 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 May 2022
Strengths
- “Rickley Park is a vibrant place of learning.”
- “Pupils thrive in this happy and caring school.”
- “Leaders are very ambitious for the pupils and set high expectations for learning.”
To improve
- “Curriculum thinking in some subjects is more developed than in others.”
- “Leaders have yet to put in place the full curriculum changes because adaptions have only begun this year.”
- “In other subjects, assessment is not used as well and needs to be strengthened.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 July 2022 (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) | 47% | 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: 47 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 47 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.
- Barleyhurst Park Primary 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holne Chase Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Abbeys Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Cold Harbour Church of England School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Chestnuts Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Emerson Valley School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Merebrook Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published