Monkston Primary School

About Monkston Primary School

Monkston Primary School holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained consistently across its two most recent inspections. The school’s most recent graded inspection took place in 2013, and an ungraded inspection in 2021 confirmed that it remains Good. The strongest single metric for understanding academic outcomes here is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which stands at 72 per cent. That is ten percentage points above the Milton Keynes local authority average of 62 per cent, placing Monkston 10th out of 54 primary schools in the area and inside the top 20 per cent nationally. The school also performs well on individual subjects: 90 per cent of pupils met the expected standard in writing, 82 per cent in maths and 78 per cent in reading. Average scaled scores sit at 105 for maths and 106 for reading, both comfortably above the national benchmark of 100.

At the higher standard, the picture is more mixed. Only 2 per cent of pupils achieved the higher standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is low compared with some local peers. However, 37 per cent reached the higher standard in reading alone, and 27 per cent did so in maths. The school’s ranking score of 72 reflects its strong performance on the expected standard metric, and it sits just outside the top five in Milton Keynes, behind schools like Caroline Haslett Primary and Middleton Primary. Ofsted’s 2013 graded inspection rated leadership and management as Good, and the 2021 ungraded visit saw no change to that judgement. The school has no sixth form, as it is a primary-only setting, and there is no nursery provision on site.

Monkston Primary has capacity for 420 pupils and currently has 410 on roll, so it is running very close to full. It is oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 academic year, there were 180 applications for 53 places, with 48 first-preference offers made. That gives an oversubscription ratio of 3.4 applicants per place, so families need to be realistic about admission chances. The school offers a Forest School, art studios, music rooms, a sensory room and an ICT suite, plus a chapel on site. Sports include football, cricket, cross country and netball, and clubs range from choir and chess to book club and coding. SEND provision covers specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a solid, well-regarded local primary that suits families who prioritise strong core academic outcomes and a broad range of enrichment activities.

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