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Cuddington and Dinton CofE School

Primary · Aylesbury · HP18 0AP

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Good

Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection

Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.

Inspected 18 January 2023

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At a glance

179 pupils · 98% of 182 capacity

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
4.5% of pupils
English as additional language
1.1% of pupils
SEN support
9.9% of pupils
EHC plan
1.1% of pupils
Website
www.cuddingtonanddintonschool.co.uk
URN
110452

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.73 first-choice applications per place

26 places offered · 19 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

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 1.507 miles

measurement method not stated by the council.

Cutoff distance by entry year

19
21
26

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
81%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
19%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
109
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
110
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

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

This school81%
Median of its 12 closest peers74.5%
Buckinghamshire average66.5%
England62%

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

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Levendale Primary SchoolYarm · 188 miles awayGood76%
Trowell CofE Primary SchoolNotts · 81 miles awayGood67%
Church Langton Church of England Primary SchoolMarket Harborough · 51 miles awayExpected standard82%
Worth Primary SchoolPoynton · 118 miles awayRequires improvement65%
Mitton Manor Primary SchoolTewkesbury · 54 miles awayGood57%
Plaistow and Kirdford Primary SchoolBillingshurst · 52 miles awayRequires improvement50%
Olveston Church of England Primary SchoolBristol · 72 miles awayGood83%
Silkstone Primary SchoolBarnsley · 124 miles awayGood83%
Freshford Church SchoolBath · 67 miles awayGood96%
Thurstaston Dawpool CofE Primary SchoolWirral · 142 miles awayGood83%
Box Church of England Primary SchoolCorsham · 62 miles awayGood73%
Waddington and West Bradford Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolClitheroe · 157 miles awayGood55%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.8%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
7%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
19.9
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

96% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£6,208
Typical primary school£6,959

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
8/10less deprived than most of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher47.4%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications12.3%18.1%
In managerial or professional work50.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways7.3%18.1%
Residents in very good health53.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier80.7%62.3%
Social housing8.7%17.1%
Privately rented10.6%20.5%
Detached houses59%22.9%
Flats1.9%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms44.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van6.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01017684 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 951 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£516,00018 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£361,500–£820,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (8)£850,000
Semi-detached (5)£450,000

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

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
1a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
2a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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