Sires Hill Primary Academy
Primary · Free schools · Ages 2–11 · Didcot, Oxfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.487 miles
Published by Oxfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sires Hill Primary Academy is a primary school in Didcot, Oxfordshire for ages 2–11 (free schools). Oxfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Sires Hill Primary Academy 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 | 0.487 mi |
| 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
- In 2026 the last Reception place went to a child living 0.487 miles away, 13th shortest of 73 Oxfordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 37 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (22%) were not offered a place.
- The 2026 Reception distance was about the same as in 2025 and nearer the school than in 2023, after sharp swings between some years.
- Free school meals: 3.4% of pupils are eligible, against a middle figure of 14.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Oxfordshire.
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
- Darwin Drive, Didcot, OX11 9GY
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Oxfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 117 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 37 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Ladygrove Park Primary School 0.5 mi Good
- All Saints Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Manor Primary School 1.2 mi Good
- Willowcroft Community School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stephen Freeman Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Northbourne Church of England Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good
- Long Wittenham (Church of England) Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Didcot Primary Academy 1.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published