Tibberton Community Primary School and Early Years

About Tibberton Community Primary School and Early Years

Tibberton Community Primary School and Early Years is a state primary in Gloucestershire, serving the Forest of Dean area. Among the 243 primary schools in the local authority, it sits in a competitive landscape where the top-ranked peers include Meysey Hampton Church of England Primary School and Temple Guiting Church of England School, both with a perfect ranking score of 100, and Thrupp School close behind at 95. Tibberton itself is a small school with 140 pupils, well over its official capacity of 105, and it has a nursery provision for children as young as two. The school is non-religious and mixed, with a headteacher named Sarah Wilson. Its most recent Ofsted inspection, an ungraded visit in 2023, confirmed that the school remains Good, a notable improvement from its previous graded inspection in 2012, when it was rated Requires Improvement. The school is clearly popular locally: for the 2025/26 admissions cycle, it received 45 applications for just 14 places, with 13 of those offers going to first-preference families, giving an oversubscription ratio of 3.21.

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