Kintbury St Mary's C.E. Primary School

About Kintbury St Mary's C.E. Primary School

Kintbury St Mary's C.E. Primary School holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained consistently across its two most recent inspections, including an ungraded visit in 2023 that confirmed the school remains Good. The most telling academic metric for this 121-pupil Church of England primary is its Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard score: 58% of pupils reached that benchmark in the 2023/24 assessments. That figure sits just one percentage point above the West Berkshire local authority average of 57%, placing the school 26th out of 57 primary schools in the area. While that puts it in the bottom half of the LA table, the context matters — the school serves a community where nearly 30% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, a factor that often depresses headline results. Its regional ranking in the South East is similarly mid-table, at the 61st percentile nationally.

Digging into the detail, Kintbury's reading results are its strongest subject: 74% of pupils met the expected standard and 42% reached the higher standard, with an average scaled score of 105. Maths and writing both saw 68% of pupils hit the expected mark, though maths scored a slightly lower average of 103. The proportion reaching the higher standard in maths was 32%, compared with just 11% in both writing and the combined RWM measure. Ofsted's 2018 graded inspection rated leadership and management, early years provision and overall effectiveness all as Good, and the 2023 ungraded visit found no reason to change that judgement. The school has no official sixth form and no nursery provision, so children typically join in Reception and leave after Year 6. With 121 pupils against a capacity of 210, the school is comfortably below its maximum size, though it was oversubscribed for 2025/26 entry, receiving 21 applications for 14 places and offering 13 to first-preference families.

The school's facilities include a dining hall, library, playing fields, outdoor playground, chapel and a sensory room, the latter reflecting its SEND provision which covers specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional mental health needs, speech and language communication issues, and autistic spectrum disorder. Sports on offer include athletics, gymnastics, rounders, cricket, tennis, football and dance, while clubs range from film and chess to drama, eco club, art club and coding. For families weighing up options in West Berkshire, Kintbury St Mary's presents as a solid, mid-ranking state primary with a clear Church of England character, a strong reading record and a realistic understanding of the challenges its intake brings. It's a school that suits parents who value consistency and a broad extracurricular offer over top-tier headline results, and who want a smaller setting where their child won't be lost in a crowd.

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