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Coughton CofE Primary School

Primary · Alcester · B49 5HN

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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 29 June 2022

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At a glance

184 pupils · 131% of 140 capacity (over capacity)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
15.2% of pupils
English as additional language
2.2% of pupils
SEN support
15.3% of pupils
EHC plan
3.8% of pupils
Website
http://www.coughtonschool.org
URN
145711

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.96 first-choice applications per place

25 places offered · 24 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 distance published for 2026 entry is not shown here.

It is far outside anything this school's other years or comparable schools show, so it would not tell you how close you need to live.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 2.82 miles

measured in a straight line.

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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)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
47%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
3%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
105
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
101
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 school47%
Median of its 12 closest peers66.5%
Warwickshire average62.4%
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
Ingatestone and Fryerning Church of England Junior SchoolIngatestone · 104 miles awayNot yet graded71%
Haslingden Broadway Primary SchoolRossendale · 102 miles awayGood48%
Holywell CofE Primary SchoolSt Ives · 78 miles awayGood63%
St Lawrence CofE (Voluntary Aided) Primary SchoolSoutham · 24 miles awayNo current grade48%
Reepham Primary SchoolNorwich · 131 miles awayGood77%
Dalton St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolDalton-in-Furness · 142 miles awayGood70%
Orleton CofE Primary SchoolLudlow · 36 miles awayGood70%
Audlem St James' CofE Primary SchoolCrewe · 58 miles awayGood70%
Sturton by Stow Primary SchoolLincoln · 90 miles awayGood56%
Bentley Church of England Primary SchoolFarnham · 84 miles awayExpected standard75%
Boughton Monchelsea Primary SchoolMaidstone · 125 miles awayGood47%
New Swannington Primary SchoolCoalville · 41 miles awayGood46%

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)
5.3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
10.7%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
20.4
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year

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£6,322
Typical primary school£6,959

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy 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.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
7/10less deprived than most 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 higher39.4%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications13.3%18.1%
In managerial or professional work45.8%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways9%18.1%
Residents in very good health53.6%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier80.4%62.3%
Social housing9.1%17.1%
Privately rented10.6%20.5%
Detached houses63.3%22.9%
Flats4.4%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms46.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van5.9%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01031213 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,650 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
£610,00016 sales within 2 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£523,000–£681,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (14)£630,000

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 2 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (4.54 km, 2025 entry): 755 sales, median £318,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Fewer than ten homes sold within 1 km, so the figures use 2 km.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 2 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
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
2a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
1a 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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