Claverdon Primary School

About Claverdon Primary School

Claverdon Primary School’s most recent Ofsted inspection, in 2024, awarded it an Outstanding rating across every single category — overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That’s a clear step up from its previous Good rating in 2014. The school’s strongest headline exam metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined at Key Stage 2. In the 2023/24 academic year, 81% of Claverdon’s Year 6 pupils hit that combined benchmark, well above the Warwickshire local authority average of 62%. That performance places Claverdon 10th out of 52 primary schools in the Stratford-on-Avon district, and inside the top 10% nationally. It’s a strong academic story, and one that’s backed up by consistently high individual subject scores.

Digging into the detail, Claverdon’s pupils performed particularly strongly in reading, where 97% reached the expected standard and 56% achieved the higher standard. In writing, 91% met the expected level and 47% hit the higher mark. Maths saw 84% at the expected level and 53% at the higher level, with an average scaled score of 108. The combined reading, writing and maths higher standard was reached by 31% of pupils. These results put Claverdon in a strong position within its local authority, where only 12 out of 196 primary schools hold an Outstanding Ofsted rating. The school’s ranking score of 81 reflects its solid academic performance, though it sits behind a handful of top-performing peers in the area, such as Mappleborough Green CofE Primary and St Mary’s Catholic Primary, both of which scored 100 on the same metric.

Claverdon is a state primary school for 201 pupils aged 4 to 11, with a capacity of 210, so it’s nearly full. It’s oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, there were 86 applications for 30 places, with 29 first-preference offers made from 35 first-preference applications — an oversubscription ratio of 2.87. The school has a relatively low proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 7.5%. Facilities include a music room, ICT suite, library, playing fields, sports hall and chapel. Sports on offer include cricket, athletics, netball, dance and football, while clubs range from book club and choir to art, film, eco and science club. SEND provision covers specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, physical disability, autistic spectrum disorder and other difficulties. This is a school that suits families looking for strong academic outcomes in a well-subscribed village primary with a broad extracurricular offer.

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