Longford Park Primary School

About Longford Park Primary School

Longford Park Primary School’s Key Stage 2 results comfortably outpace the local authority average for primary schools. While the Oxfordshire average for pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined sits at 61%, Longford Park achieves 73% — a clear 12-point lead. This places the school in the top 25% nationally for this metric and 10th out of 45 schools in the Cherwell district. The school’s Ofsted rating is Outstanding across every category, including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, early years provision, and leadership and management — a clean sweep of top marks from its most recent inspection in 2021. That puts Longford Park among just 13 outstanding primaries in the entire Oxfordshire local authority, which contains 242 primary schools in total.

Digging into the detail of the 2023/24 exam results, the school’s strongest subject is reading, where 91% of pupils hit the expected standard and 23% reached the higher standard. In writing, 86% met the expected level, though the proportion reaching the higher standard drops to 5%. Maths tells a similar story: 77% at expected, 23% at the higher threshold. The average scaled scores — 106 in reading and 105 in maths — are both above the national benchmark of 100. The combined expected standard figure of 73% is strong, but the combined higher standard figure of just 5% suggests that while most children are solidly on track, very few are soaring into the top tier. That’s worth weighing up if you’re looking for a school that pushes the most able pupils to the highest ceiling.

Longford Park is a mixed, state primary for children aged 2 to 11, with a nursery on site. It currently has 279 pupils against a capacity of 354, so there is some physical room, but it is heavily oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, there were 127 applications for 57 places, with 56 first-preference offers made — an oversubscription ratio of 2.23. The school serves a relatively mixed catchment, with 14.7% of pupils eligible for free school meals. Facilities include a library, gymnasium, sports hall, playing fields, forest school, sensory room, music rooms, and even a chapel. SEND provision covers moderate learning difficulty, speech and language needs, social and emotional mental health, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. With a strong set of clubs from coding to choir and sports like netball, swimming and football, this is a well-resourced school that suits families who want proven academic outcomes in a popular, oversubscribed setting.

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