The Horsell Village School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Woking, Surrey
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.86 miles
Published by Surrey County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2024–2026 (miles)
The Horsell Village School is a primary school in Woking, Surrey for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 February 2023. Surrey has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
The Horsell Village 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 | 1.86 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 1.09 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 1.45 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026's last distance offered was 1.86 miles, 30th longest of 113 Surrey primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 1.31 miles.
- The Reception last distance has swung sharply, with the biggest move from 2025 to 2026, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 89 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 85 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families (4%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 4.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 16.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Surrey.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Surrey schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Church Hill, Horsell, Woking, GU21 4QQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Surrey
- Pupils on roll
- 258 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 February 2023
Strengths
- “This is a school where pupils love to come and learn.”
- “From the early years upwards, pupils are fully engaged in their learning.”
- “Adults know pupils as individuals.”
To improve
- “However, there is not a consistent approach to reviewing what pupils have learned before.”
- “This means, in some subjects, pupils are not building knowledge over time as well as they might.”
- “However, the books pupils are reading do not match the sounds they know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 89 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 85 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 Surrey.
- Horsell CofE Junior School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Goldsworth Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Sythwood Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Maybury Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School, Woking 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Beaufort Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barnsbury Primary School and Nursery 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westfield Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published