Park Primary School

About Park Primary School

Park Primary School in Rushmoor is a state primary for mixed-gender pupils aged 4 to 11, currently home to 190 children against a capacity of 212. That leaves a little breathing room, but demand tells a different story: for the 2025/26 intake, the school received 53 applications for 30 places, with 29 of those as first preferences. Only 26 first-preference offers were made, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.77. The school’s intake is notably diverse in terms of disadvantage — 46.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the national average and a clear signal of the community it serves. Headteacher Emma Grant leads a school that has held a Good rating from Ofsted across its most recent graded inspection in 2019 and its ungraded inspection in October 2024, though the latter noted that some aspects were not as strong.

Academically, Park Primary’s KS2 results for the 2023/24 year show a mixed picture. Just 33% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, compared with a local authority average of 61%. That places the school in the bottom 50 nationally and 15th out of 16 schools in Rushmoor. Digging into individual subjects, 53% reached the expected standard in maths and 50% in reading, while writing lagged at 43%. At the higher standard, 20% achieved in reading and 10% in maths, but no pupils reached the higher bar in writing or across all three subjects. Average scaled scores were 102 in both reading and maths, exactly in line with the national benchmark. The school’s ranking score of 33 out of 100 reflects these outcomes, though it’s worth noting that progress measures for all three subjects were not reported.

Facilities include a sports hall, playing fields, library, art studios, a sensory room and a chapel, with clubs ranging from book club and eco club to gardening, film club and choir. Sports on offer are football, cross country, rounders, cricket, swimming, dance and athletics. The school has a clear focus on SEND, with provisions for moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication, hearing impairment and autistic spectrum disorder. Parent View responses from 14 families between September 2024 and September 2025 were largely positive: 86% would recommend the school, 100% agreed or strongly agreed their child is happy, and 93% felt their child does well. However, 21% disagreed that their child can take part in clubs and activities, and 14% would not recommend the school. Park Primary suits families who value a strong pastoral and SEND offer in a diverse, oversubscribed community school.

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