Rectory Farm Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Northampton, 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 🔒
Rectory Farm Primary School is a primary school in Northampton, West Northamptonshire for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 September 2023. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Rectory Farm 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 |
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, as at 124 of the 141 other West Northamptonshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 21 first-choice applications for 21 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 24th highest of 143 West Northamptonshire primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 45% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
- There are 18.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.1 across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
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
- Olden Road, Rectory Farm, Northampton, NN3 5DD
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 179 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “There is a calm and purposeful atmosphere throughout this school.”
- “Staff develop highly respectful and supportive relationships with pupils.”
- “They instil positive attitudes and values.”
To improve
- “Occasionally, the school’s ambitions for pupils with SEND are not as high as they need to be.”
- “Some pupils with SEND do not get the right help to enable them to access the curriculum.”
- “However, some parents say that they do not understand why some changes have been made.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 October 2023 (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) | 45% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 21 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.
- Blackthorn Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodvale Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's Ceva Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Lings Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Ecton Brook Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lumbertubs Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Thorplands Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Overstone Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published