Mawsley Primary School

About Mawsley Primary School

Mawsley Primary School’s headline metrics sit comfortably above the local authority average for primary schools in North Northamptonshire, where the average proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (RWM) combined is 61%. At Mawsley, 67% of pupils hit that benchmark in the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 assessments, placing the school 30th out of 90 primaries in the LA and in the top 40% nationally. That’s a solid, above-average performance, though it doesn’t quite reach the heights of the LA’s top three — Gretton, Stanion and Broughton — which all scored above 89 on the same ranking metric. Still, Mawsley’s result is a clear step up from the typical LA school, and the gap is meaningful enough to suggest a consistent focus on core academic skills.

Digging into the detail, Mawsley’s strongest subject at KS2 is maths, where 88% of pupils reached the expected standard and 31% achieved the higher standard — both well above the national averages for those measures. Reading and writing are more mixed: 79% reached the expected standard in reading and 75% in writing, with higher-standard attainment at 27% and 17% respectively. The average scaled scores for reading and maths are both 106, which is above the national baseline of 100. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection, in June 2022, rated it Good across all five categories — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That’s a notable improvement from its previous inspection in 2018, when it was rated Requires Improvement overall, with leadership and management also marked at that lower level.

Mawsley is a state primary for mixed genders aged 4 to 11, with 296 pupils on roll against a capacity of 315, so there’s a little headroom. It is oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, 27 places attracted 49 total applications, with 29 first-preference applications and all 27 offers going to first-preference families — an oversubscription ratio of 1.81. The school has a broad range of facilities including a library, sports hall, gymnasium, ICT suite, forest school and even a chapel, plus sports like netball, rounders, swimming and athletics. SEND provision is extensive, covering specific learning difficulties, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional needs, speech and language, multi-sensory impairment, autism and a dedicated SEN unit. With 11.1% of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a reasonably mixed catchment. This is a school that suits families looking for solid academic outcomes, strong SEND support and a wide range of extracurricular clubs like gardening, choir and coding, all within a Good-rated environment that has demonstrably improved.

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