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Denham Village School

Primary · Uxbridge · UB9 5AE

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 20 February 2024

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At a glance

100 pupils · 95% of 105 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
12% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
12% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
5% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
6% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
www.denhamvillageschool.co.uk
URN
110219

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 10 families named it first for 15 Reception places, 0.67 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 1.049 miles; distance decided places in 4 of the 9 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2018 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Good on 20 February 2024, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.7% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.67 first-choice applications per place

15 places offered · 10 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1.049 miles

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

14 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
64%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
21%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
107
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
104
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school64%
Median of its 12 closest peers61%
Buckinghamshire average66.3%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.

They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.

SchoolOfstedResult
Hinton St George Church of England Primary SchoolHinton St George · 110 miles awayGood60%
Blagdon Primary SchoolBristol · 97 miles awayGood61%
Sywell Church of England Primary SchoolNorthampton · 52 miles awayGood40%
St Mary & St Joseph Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyPocklington · 164 miles awayGood83%
Hambledon Primary SchoolWaterlooville · 51 miles awayGood77%
Bollinbrook CofE (A) Primary SchoolMacclesfield · 136 miles awayGood61%
St Lucia's CofE Primary School & NurseryShrewsbury · 121 miles awayGood83%
Burton Pidsea Primary SchoolHull · 153 miles awayRequires improvement25%
Bladon Church of England Primary SchoolWoodstock · 41 miles awayGood62%
Tasburgh Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolNorwich · 99 miles awayGood52%
Riseley CofE Primary SchoolBedford · 48 miles awayGood56%
Welford Sibbertoft and Sulby Endowed SchoolNorthampton · 63 miles awayNeeds attention63%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 52% (Buckinghamshire 56%, England 60%) · Asian Indian 19% (Buckinghamshire 7%, England 4%) · Any other Mixed background 6% (Buckinghamshire 3%, England 3%) · Any other White background 6% (Buckinghamshire 6%, England 7%) · Black African 5% (Buckinghamshire 3%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 5% (Buckinghamshire 3%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 2% (Buckinghamshire 10%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Buckinghamshire 3%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Buckinghamshire 1%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 1% (Buckinghamshire 3%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Buckinghamshire 1%, England 1%)

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.7%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
7.9%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

7.00 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Buckinghamshire: 2.72 suspensions and 0.02 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
20.7
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

82% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 18% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained primaries: 0.18% vacant, 0.36% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

66.7% of teachers took sickness absence, 4 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £55,125; 40% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2025-26)

This school£7,766
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 80% (76%) · premises 2% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 7% (8%) · supplies and services 10% (9%) · educational supplies 7% (4%) · bought-in professional services 2% (3%) · catering 4% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve £10,241; in-year balance +£38,611

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: council-maintained school finance return, 2025-26, DfE · how spending is compared

Inspection history since 2015

Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher42.1%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications12.6%18.1%
In managerial or professional work43.9%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways7.4%18.1%
Residents in very good health54.1%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier84%62.3%
Social housing1.7%17.1%
Privately rented14.3%20.5%
Detached houses60.4%22.9%
Flats16.5%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms40.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van9.9%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01017813 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£515,00041 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£415,000–£605,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Semi-detached (20)£577,500
Terraced (10)£427,500
Flat (7)£320,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.69 km, 2025 entry): 113 sales, median £515,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
0an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
3an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
11an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
0an urban school averages 6.1

A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted

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