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Cockernhoe Endowed CofE Primary School

Primary · Luton · LU2 8PY

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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: Strong standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 3 March 2026 · report published 23 April 2026

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At a glance

68 pupils · 57% of 120 capacity

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
17.6% of pupils
English as additional language
17.7% of pupils
SEN support
34.2% of pupils
EHC plan
0% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
https://www.cockernhoe.herts.sch.uk/
URN
117446

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

6 places offered · 6 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

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

The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.

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)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
67%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
33%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
105
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
105
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 school67%
Median of its 12 closest peers71%
Hertfordshire average63.8%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind 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
Buriton Primary SchoolPetersfield · 69 miles awayGood80%
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School, HighfieldRowlands Gill · 217 miles awayGood80%
Cockfield Church of England Primary SchoolBury St Edmunds · 52 miles awayGood73%
Great Whelnetham Church of England Primary SchoolBury St. Edmunds · 52 miles awayGood71%
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Barnard CastleBarnard Castle · 194 miles awayGood81%
St Faiths CofE Primary SchoolNorwich. · 89 miles awayGood43%
Weeton St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPreston · 170 miles awayGood25%
Hamsey Community Primary SchoolLewes · 70 miles awayGood70%
William Penn SchoolHorsham · 62 miles awayRequires improvement64%
Landewednack Community Primary SchoolHelston · 249 miles awayStrong standard71%
The Valley Primary SchoolStoke-on-Trent · 101 miles awayGood78%
Bradwell Junior SchoolHope Valley · 114 miles awayInadequate60%

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)
4%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
8.3%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
10.9
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

83% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 17% left the state-funded sector

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£8,569
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)
6/10around the middle for England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for 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 higher35.6%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications14.5%18.1%
In managerial or professional work38.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways13.3%18.1%
Residents in very good health46.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier62.5%62.3%
Social housing22.2%17.1%
Privately rented15.4%20.5%
Detached houses25.5%22.9%
Flats2.2%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms31.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van6.4%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01023624 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,124 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
£357,500112 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£298,000–£456,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (38)£472,500
Semi-detached (40)£333,500
Terraced (32)£302,500

Homes around this school are dearer than most 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

No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
0a 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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