Willowcroft Community School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Didcot, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.422 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2013–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Willowcroft Community School is a primary school in Didcot, Oxfordshire for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 March 2024. Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2013 to 2026 entry.
Willowcroft Community 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 | 1.422 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 6 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 69% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last distance offered for Reception 2026 was 1.422 miles, nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2013.
- Reception 2026 drew 60 first-choice applications for 58 offers; 56 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- Of its pupils, 21.8% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 11.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Oxfordshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Oxfordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Mereland Road, Didcot, OX11 8BA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 481 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are rightly proud of their happy and nurturing school.”
- “They demonstrate positive attitudes towards their learning and others.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are warm and respectful.”
To improve
- “At times, however, the teaching of phonics is not as precise as it could be.”
- “This means that a small number of pupils are not learning to read as fluently as they could.”
- “However, in a small number of subjects, teaching is not consistently effective.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 April 2024 (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) | 69% | 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: 60 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 56 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 Oxfordshire.
- Northbourne Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Manor Primary School 0.6 mi Good
- All Saints Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hagbourne Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ladygrove Park Primary School 0.9 mi Good
- Aureus Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Stephen Freeman Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Didcot Primary Academy 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published