St Mary's Wavendon CofE Primary
Primary · Milton Keynes · MK17 7AA
Data updated
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.
Inspected 18 June 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
489 pupils · 78% of 630 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 30% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 29.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 10.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 1.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 151368
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 48 families named it first for 69 Reception places, 0.70 first choices per place. We hold 4 Reception admissions rounds for it, 2023 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. Ofsted last graded it Good on 18 June 2024, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 5.1% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.70 first-choice applications per place69 places offered · 48 first-choice applications · usually has places
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.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2024 entry)
- Criterion 4 (Outside catchment with a sibling)
- 2.138 miles
2024 is the most recent year we hold a cutoff for this school. It describes that year, not 2026.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Milton Keynes school admissions · the wider Milton Keynes authority
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 25% (Milton Keynes 40%, England 60%) · Black African 15% (Milton Keynes 12%, England 5%) · Asian Indian 12% (Milton Keynes 8%, England 4%) · Any other White background 9% (Milton Keynes 11%, England 7%) · Asian Chinese 8% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 1%) · Not recorded 6% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 1%) · Any other Black background 5% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 1%) · Any other Asian background 5% (Milton Keynes 4%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 4% (Milton Keynes 5%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black African 3% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 1%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Milton Keynes 4%, England 3%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Milton Keynes 1%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 2%) · Asian Bangladeshi 1% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 3%) · White Irish 1% (Milton Keynes 0%, England 0%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
1.02 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Milton Keynes: 2.53 suspensions and 0.00 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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)
26.1% of teachers took sickness absence, 12.3 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 £40,133; 4.8% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 5/10around the middle for England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 48.6% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 7.5% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 51.7% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 5% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 62.3% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 81.8% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 8.8% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 9.4% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 28.5% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 21.5% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 31.9% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 8.5% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01034451 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £450,000272 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £396,500–£576,500the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
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
No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 0an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 0an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0an urban school averages 6.1
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