Drayton Park School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Drayton Park School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 May 2025. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Drayton Park 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
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place, as at 67 of the 77 other Milton Keynes primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 60% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes.
- There are 16.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes.
- Of its pupils, 46.7% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes is 29.7%.
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
- Bala Way, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK2 3HJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 332 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 46.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 8 May 2025
Strengths
- “The school is determined that all pupils achieve extremely well.”
- “High expectations underpin all activities and pupils regularly rise to them.”
- “The school motto, ‘every child, every chance, every day’, underpins everything.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, the school’s recent refinements to the implementation of the curriculum are not embedded fully.”
- “This means that sometimes pupils may move on before their understanding or knowledge of key concepts is secure.”
- “A small number still struggle with this and risk missing vital learning, at the start of the day because they arrive late, or because they are absent too often.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 June 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) | 60% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 23 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.
- Bishop Parker Catholic School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Water Hall Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Premier Academy 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Newton Leys Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Knowles Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Holne Chase Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rickley Park Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published