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Chalford Hill Primary School

Primary · Stroud · GL6 8LG

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Expected standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Expected standardAchievement: Expected standardAttendance & behaviour: Expected standardPersonal development: Strong standardInclusion: Expected standardLeadership & governance: Expected standardEarly years: Expected standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 25 November 2025 · report published 21 January 2026

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At a glance

195 pupils · 93% of 210 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
5–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
6.2% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
1.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
13.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
1.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
www.chalfordhill.gloucs.sch.uk/
URN
115509

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 23 families named it first for 23 Reception places, 1.00 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2024 entry went to 0.98 miles; distance decided places in 3 of the 15 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2012 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 25 November 2025, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Expected standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

23 places offered · 23 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

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 (2024 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.98 miles

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

28 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
14%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
109
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
105
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 peers71%
Gloucestershire average61.5%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind 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
Redfield Edge Primary SchoolBristol · 24 miles awayGood66%
Hildenborough Church of England Primary SchoolTonbridge · 109 miles awayGood75%
Aughton St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolOrmskirk · 130 miles awayGood71%
Moore Primary SchoolWarrington · 115 miles awayGood77%
Offham Primary SchoolWest Malling · 113 miles awayGood59%
Wheatley Lane Methodist Primary SchoolBurnley · 146 miles awayExpected standard72%
Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolOtley · 152 miles awayNo current grade67%
Hutton Rudby Primary SchoolYarm · 192 miles awayGood76%
St Andrew's CofE Primary SchoolHorsham · 93 miles awayGood69%
The Priory Primary SchoolTadley · 52 miles awayGood71%
St Michael's Church of England Primary School, AlkringtonManchester · 125 miles awayGood65%
St Anne's CofE (VC) Primary SchoolStoke-on-Trent · 94 miles awayGood86%

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

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 91% (Gloucestershire 76%, England 60%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Gloucestershire 2%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Gloucestershire 1%, England 2%) · Not recorded 2% (Gloucestershire 2%, England 1%) · Any other White background 2% (Gloucestershire 6%, England 7%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Gloucestershire 2%, England 2%)

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%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
4.6%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

2.55 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Gloucestershire: 3.19 suspensions and 0.08 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
23
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% 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)

77.8% of teachers took sickness absence, 2.2 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 £51,540; 23.1% 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£6,463
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 79% (76%) · premises 4% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (8%) · supplies and services 9% (9%) · educational supplies 4% (4%) · bought-in professional services 4% (3%) · catering 4% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve -£178,513; in-year balance -£130,778

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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)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher51.4%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications10.2%18.1%
In managerial or professional work47.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways8.5%18.1%
Residents in very good health53.7%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier88.2%62.3%
Social housing5.5%17.1%
Privately rented6.1%20.5%
Detached houses61.6%22.9%
Flats2.6%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms40.2%21.1%
Households with no car or van7.5%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01022367 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£415,000119 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£280,000–£550,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (58)£516,000
Semi-detached (29)£417,000
Terraced (30)£250,000

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 (1.58 km, 2024 entry): 241 sales, median £360,000. 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
1an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
4an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
1an 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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