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Clifton Hampden Church of England Primary School

Primary · Abingdon · OX14 3EE

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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: OutstandingPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 25 June 2024

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At a glance

80 pupils · 76% of 105 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Voluntary controlled school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
3.8% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
8.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
20% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
5.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
http://www.clifton-hampden.oxon.sch.uk
URN
123127

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 2 families named it first for 4 Reception places, 0.50 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2022 entry went to 2.349 miles; distance decided places in 4 of the 15 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2012 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Good on 25 June 2024, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

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 (2022 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 2.349 miles

measured in a straight line.

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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
7%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
108
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
106
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 peers50%
Oxfordshire average63.2%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of 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
Long Wittenham (Church of England) Primary SchoolAbingdon · 1 miles awayRequires improvement63%
Steep Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPetersfield · 45 miles awayGood64%
Chipping Warden Primary AcademyBanbury · 33 miles awayGood33%
Kirkbride Primary SchoolWigton · 238 miles awayGood38%
Gretton Primary SchoolCheltenham · 40 miles awayNeeds attention43%
St Laurence Church of England SchoolWallingford · 3 miles awayExpected standard73%
Staveley Community Primary SchoolKnaresborough · 166 miles awayGood77%
Marksbury CofE Primary SchoolBath · 58 miles awayGood28%
St Paul's CofE Junior SchoolBarrow-in-Furness · 190 miles awayGood44%
Barton Stacey Church of England Primary SchoolWinchester · 34 miles awayGood75%
Norton-in-Hales CofE Primary SchoolMarket Drayton · 103 miles awayGood56%
Burlington CofE SchoolKirkby-in-Furness · 196 miles awayGood36%

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

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 76% (Oxfordshire 65%, England 60%) · Any other White background 10% (Oxfordshire 8%, England 7%) · Mixed White and Asian 4% (Oxfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 2% (Oxfordshire 2%, England 3%) · Asian Bangladeshi 2% (Oxfordshire 0%, England 2%) · Any other Mixed background 2% (Oxfordshire 3%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 1% (Oxfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Oxfordshire 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)
3.5%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
9.7%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

4.44 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Oxfordshire: 3.29 suspensions and 0.01 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
16
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

80% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 20% 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)

57.1% of teachers took sickness absence, 1.6 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 £48,513; 14.3% 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£9,279
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

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

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve £135,708; in-year balance -£12,285

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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)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher54.5%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications11.7%18.1%
In managerial or professional work49.9%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways7%18.1%
Residents in very good health55.3%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier73%62.3%
Social housing4.8%17.1%
Privately rented22.2%20.5%
Detached houses42.9%22.9%
Flats5%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms42.9%21.1%
Households with no car or van7.6%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01028658 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£589,00014 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£501,000–£651,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (7)£625,000
Semi-detached (5)£510,000

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (3.78 km, 2022 entry): 217 sales, median £435,000. 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
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
1a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

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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