Farndon Primary School

About Farndon Primary School

Farndon Primary School, a state primary for children aged 3 to 11 in Cheshire West and Chester, was judged Good in its most recent Ofsted inspection in early 2025, with inspectors awarding Good across every category assessed, including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and early years provision. The school’s most telling academic metric comes from the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, where 44% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits well below the local authority average of 61%, and it places Farndon 93rd out of 128 primary schools in the borough. In the national rankings, the school sits in the bottom half of all primaries, at the 87th percentile. The picture is more nuanced when you look at individual subjects: 65% of pupils hit the expected standard in both reading and writing, while maths lagged at 56%. Just 9% of pupils reached the higher standard across all three subjects.

The Ofsted report itself noted that the school had maintained a Good rating since its previous graded inspection in 2010, though the earlier inspection had rated early years provision as Requires Improvement, a category that has now been upgraded to Good. The parent view, gathered from 72 responses between September 2024 and September 2025, paints a strikingly positive picture: 96% of parents would recommend the school, and 83% strongly agreed that their child is happy there. Strong agreement was also high for safety (90%), for the school having high expectations (58%), and for children doing well (74%). However, the data on SEND support is effectively blank — no parents answered the question about whether the school gives SEND children the support they need — which makes it hard to draw conclusions about that aspect of provision.

Farndon is a popular school, oversubscribed for the 2025/26 intake with 36 applications for 28 places, and 28 first-preference offers made. It has a nursery provision and a range of facilities including a sports hall, playing fields, a sensory room, and art studios. The school offers clubs in drama, book club and choir, and sports including football, swimming and athletics. Its SEND provisions cover moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, and autistic spectrum disorder. With 11.1% of pupils eligible for free school meals — below the national average — and a capacity of 310 with 305 pupils on roll, this is a school that feels full but not overcrowded. It will suit families who value a Good-rated local primary with strong parental satisfaction, particularly those who can support their child’s academic progress at home given the below-average KS2 outcomes.

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