Madley Brook Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Witney, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.379 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Madley Brook Community Primary School is a primary school in Witney, Oxfordshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 July 2022. Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Madley Brook Community 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 | 3.379 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 7 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 3.379 miles, 11th longest of the 73 Oxfordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.23 miles).
- That 2026 Reception distance was nearer than in 2025 but further than in 2012, and it has swung sharply between years, most from 2016 to 2017.
- Reception 2026 drew 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; all 30 went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (3%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- At the Bronze Barrow, Cedar Drive, Witney, OX28 1AR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 221 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 July 2022
Strengths
- “Madley Brook is a friendly and happy school.”
- “Leaders ensure that kindness and thoughtfulness flow through all aspects of school life.”
- “The school is a calm and respectful environment where pupils feel safe.”
To improve
- “However, leaders rightly recognise that the quality of subject leadership is not yet consistent in all subjects.”
- “In other subjects, assessment is less precise because the systems are newer and not fully established.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 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) | 65% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- The Blake Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained
- Witney Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- The Batt Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Tower Hill Community Primary School 1.1 mi Good
- Queen Emma's Primary School 1.5 mi Good
- Hailey Church of England Primary School 1.6 mi Not judged
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Witney 1.7 mi School remains Good