Watling Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 3–11 · Milton Keynes
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Milton Keynes City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Watling Primary School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 3–11 (free schools). Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Watling 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 56 first-choice applications for 49 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the 5th highest of 75 Milton Keynes primary schools.
- All 49 Reception 2026 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- 8.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, with 23.1 pupils per teacher; the middle figures across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes are 16.9% and 21.4.
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
- Simmental Way, Whitehouse, Milton Keynes, MK8 1GB
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 327 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 56 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 49 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.
- Whitehouse Primary School 0.5 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Fairfields Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Ashbrook School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Two Mile Ash School 1.0 mi Outstanding
- Holmwood School 1.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Christ the Sower Ecumenical Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Greenleys First School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published