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Avening Primary School

Primary · Tetbury · GL8 8NF

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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 16 June 2026 · report published 7 September 2026

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At a glance

107 pupils · 96% of 112 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
15.9% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
3.7% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
24.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
4.7% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
www.avening.gloucs.sch.uk/
URN
149619

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 9 families named it first for 13 Reception places, 0.69 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2023 entry went to 2.09 miles; distance decided places in 5 of the 15 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2012 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 16 June 2026, 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 3.7% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.69 first-choice applications per place

13 places offered · 9 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

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 (2023 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 2.09 miles

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
56%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
22%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
108
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 school56%
Median of its 12 closest peers63.5%
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
Buckland Newton Church of England Primary SchoolDorchester · 59 miles awayExpected standard71%
Whiteparish All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury · 52 miles awayGood73%
Collingbourne Church of England Primary SchoolMarlborough · 35 miles awayGood (2019)60%
Coaley Church of England Primary AcademyDursley · 7 miles awayStrong standard100%
Wix and Wrabness Primary SchoolManningtree · 142 miles awayGood83%
Kingswood Primary SchoolKingswood · 9 miles awayGood40%
All Saints' and St Richard's Church of England Primary SchoolHeathfield · 117 miles awayExpected standard58%
Elveden Church of England Primary AcademyThetford · 130 miles awayOutstanding57%
Padbury Church of England SchoolBuckingham · 56 miles awayStrong standard94%
Topcliffe CofE AcademyThirsk · 176 miles awayOutstanding53%
Chacombe CEVA Primary AcademyBanbury · 48 miles awayGood (2019)8%
Carlton CofE Primary SchoolBedford · 76 miles awayGood67%

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

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 84% (Gloucestershire 76%, England 60%) · Any other White background 8% (Gloucestershire 6%, England 7%) · Mixed White and Asian 4% (Gloucestershire 1%, England 2%) · Black Caribbean 2% (Gloucestershire 0%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Gloucestershire 2%, England 2%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (Gloucestershire 2%, England 3%)

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)
3.7%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
5.3%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

3.74 suspensions per 100 pupils and 1 permanent exclusion · 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
18.6
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

42.9% of teachers took sickness absence, 17.5 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 £52,880; 28.6% 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 (2024-25)

This school£7,822
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2024-25)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 80% (77%) · premises 2% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 11% (8%) · supplies and services 7% (9%) · educational supplies 6% (4%) · bought-in professional services 1% (2%) · catering 3% (5%)

Reserves (2024-25)

Revenue reserve £28,000; in-year balance +£20,000

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, 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)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher47.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications11.1%18.1%
In managerial or professional work44.8%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways10.1%18.1%
Residents in very good health52.4%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier66.6%62.3%
Social housing12.2%17.1%
Privately rented21.2%20.5%
Detached houses44.8%22.9%
Flats6.8%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms36%21.1%
Households with no car or van5.4%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01022176 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£452,50026 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£360,500–£537,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (15)£530,000
Semi-detached (6)£435,000

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 (3.36 km, 2023 entry): 166 sales, median £510,000. 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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