Harmans Water Primary School
Primary · Bracknell · RG12 9NE
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 17 March 2026 · report published 7 June 2026
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445 pupils · 100% of 440 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 24.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 15.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 18.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.harmanswater.co.uk
- URN
- 130949
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.92 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 55 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
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.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
60 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
81% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 14% moved to another state school · 5% 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
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
- 17 March 2026: Needs attention
- 17 June 2021: Good
- 27 January 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 4 July 2018: Requires improvement
- 17 October 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 11 November 2015: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.