Chestnuts Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
Chestnuts Primary School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 2 April 2025. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Chestnuts 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
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, as at 67 of the 77 other Milton Keynes primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 43 first-choice applications for 43 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 60 places are published for Reception 2027.
- 35% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes is 25%.
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
- Buckingham Road, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 5EN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 400 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 2 April 2025
Strengths
- “Happy pupils learn eagerly at this inclusive, aspirational school.”
- “The school is ambitious for what pupils should learn.”
- “Pupils learn the key knowledge across the curriculum, including in reading, writing and mathematics, that prepares them well for the next stages in their education.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes teaching does not use information about pupils’ prior learning to ensure that activities build on what pupils already know and can do.”
- “When this happens, pupils struggle to make connections in their learning and their knowledge is less secure.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 May 2025 (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) | 58% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 43 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.
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holne Chase Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Rickley Park Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barleyhurst Park Primary 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Howe Park School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Giles Brook Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Emerson Valley School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Merebrook Infant School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published