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How far Oxfordshire schools admitted from

How far away the last child offered a place lived, for 70 Oxfordshire schools, from the council's own figures. Tightest first.

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70schools with a published figure
1.23 mithe middle school's distance
32filled within a mile

Primary and secondary schools, from the 2026/27 round.

Applying for September 2027? Secondary applications close on 31 October 2026, with offers on 1 March 2027; primary applications close on 15 January 2027, with offers on 16 April 2027.

The tightest is St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School at 0.2 miles in 2026/27; the most far-reaching, Kingham Primary School, admitted from 6.57 miles.

Primary schools

School Ofsted Admitted from Round How full
St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School Bicester Good 0.2 mi 2026/27 102%
Aureus Primary School Didcot Outstanding 0.25 mi 2026/27 101%
St Leonard's Church of England Primary School Banbury Report card 0.35 mi 2026/27 80%
Didcot Primary Academy Didcot Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 0.37 mi 2026/27 101%
Marcham Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School Abingdon Good 0.39 mi 2026/27 80%
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Chinnor No current grade 0.4 mi 2026/27 98%
William Morris Primary School Banbury Ungraded inspection, September 2025: standards maintained 0.41 mi 2026/27 137%
Rose Hill Primary School Oxford No current grade 0.42 mi 2026/27 64%
Harwell Primary School Didcot Good 0.43 mi 2026/27 100%
Stanford In the Vale CofE Primary School Faringdon Good 0.47 mi 2026/27 98%
Valley Road School Henley-on-Thames Good 0.48 mi 2026/27 79%
Bishop Loveday Church of England Primary School Banbury Report card 0.49 mi 2026/27 100%
Sires Hill Primary Academy Didcot No current grade 0.49 mi 2026/27 23%
Mill Lane Community Primary School Chinnor No current grade 0.5 mi 2026/27 110%
St Michael's CofE Primary School, Oxford City Oxford Good 0.51 mi 2026/27 90%
Larkrise Primary School Oxford Good 0.57 mi 2026/27 96%
John Hampden Primary School Thame Good 0.58 mi 2026/27 108%
St Mary and St John Church of England Primary School Oxford Good 0.62 mi 2026/27 95%
The Elms Primary School Faringdon No current grade 0.63 mi 2026/27 60%
Brize Norton Primary School Carterton Good 0.66 mi 2026/27 94%
Church Cowley St James Church of England Primary School Oxford Good 0.66 mi 2026/27 96%
Edith Moorhouse Primary School Carterton Good 0.67 mi 2026/27 107%
Windrush Church of England Primary School Witney Good 0.69 mi 2026/27 53%
Chalgrove Community Primary School Oxford Ungraded inspection, June 2025: standards maintained 0.72 mi 2026/27 105%
Wolvercote Primary School Oxford Good 0.72 mi 2026/27 107%
Witney Community Primary School Witney Good 0.81 mi 2026/27 110%
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Oxford Good 0.89 mi 2026/27 99%
Millbrook Primary School Wantage Good 0.93 mi 2026/27 115%
Drayton Community Primary School Abingdon Good 0.96 mi 2026/27 92%
St Ebbe's Church of England Aided Primary School Oxford Good 0.98 mi 2026/27 84%
Hagbourne Church of England Primary School Didcot No current grade 0.99 mi 2026/27 98%
Hanwell Fields Community School Banbury No current grade 0.99 mi 2026/27 108%
Sunningwell Church of England Primary School Oxon Good 1.08 mi 2026/27 74%
New Hinksey Church of England Primary School Oxford Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.14 mi 2026/27 81%
Wantage Primary Academy Wantage Outstanding 1.2 mi 2026/27 77%
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, Littlemore Oxford Good 1.23 mi 2026/27 92%
Aston and Cote Church of England Primary School Bampton Good 1.29 mi 2026/27 105%
St Laurence Church of England School Wallingford Report card 1.37 mi 2026/27 85%
Christopher Rawlins Church of England Primary School Banbury Good 1.4 mi 2026/27 87%
Willowcroft Community School Didcot Good 1.42 mi 2026/27 100%
Aston Rowant Church of England Primary School Watlington Good 1.48 mi 2026/27 94%
Cherry Fields Primary School Banbury Outstanding 1.48 mi 2026/27 85%
Ewelme CofE Primary School Wallingford Good 1.5 mi 2026/27 101%
Longcot and Fernham Church of England Primary School Faringdon No current grade 1.56 mi 2026/27 95%
St Peter's Church of England School, Alvescot Bampton No current grade 1.83 mi 2026/27 100%
Dr Radcliffe's Church of England Primary School Bicester Good 1.95 mi 2026/27 92%
The Hendreds Church of England School Wantage Good 2.14 mi 2026/27 88%
Chesterton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Bicester Good 2.26 mi 2026/27 96%
Sonning Common Primary School Reading Good 2.26 mi 2026/27 71%
Crowmarsh Gifford Church of England School Wallingford Good 2.35 mi 2026/27 106%
Clanfield CofE Primary School Bampton Good 2.39 mi 2026/27 92%
Combe CofE Primary School Witney Good 2.55 mi 2026/27 97%
Shiplake Church of England School Henley-on-Thames Good 2.62 mi 2026/27 70%
St Nicholas CofE Primary School Wantage Good 2.8 mi 2026/27 115%
Enstone Primary School Chipping Norton Good 2.85 mi 2026/27 77%
Buckland Church of England Primary School Faringdon Outstanding 2.88 mi 2026/27 106%
Chadlington Church of England Primary School Chipping Norton Good 2.89 mi 2026/27 87%
Nettlebed Community School Henley-on-Thames Good 2.99 mi 2026/27 101%
Gateway Primary School Carterton Good 3.26 mi 2026/27 95%
Madley Brook Community Primary School Witney Good 3.38 mi 2026/27 70%
Deddington Church of England Primary School Banbury Report card 3.47 mi 2026/27 101%
Watlington Primary School Watlington No current grade 3.64 mi 2026/27 72%
Dr South's Church of England Primary School Kidlington Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 3.77 mi 2026/27 81%
Queensway School Banbury Good 3.98 mi 2026/27 95%
Great Tew County Primary School Chipping Norton Good 4.25 mi 2026/27 95%
St Christopher's Church of England School Lechlade Good 4.67 mi 2026/27 83%
Horspath Church of England Primary School Oxford Ungraded inspection, February 2025: standards maintained 4.84 mi 2026/27 101%
Checkendon Church of England (A) Primary School Checkendon Report card 6.17 mi 2026/27 82%
Kingham Primary School Kingham Good 6.57 mi 2026/27 101%

Secondary schools

School Ofsted Admitted from Round How full
Europa School UK Abingdon Good 1.9 mi 2026/27 97%

If a place is refused

You can appeal. In 2025, 58 of 160 secondary appeals heard here were allowed (36.2%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together.

How to read this

Every refusal carries a right of appeal to an independent panel. In Oxfordshire, panels heard 160 appeals for secondary places in the 2025 round and allowed 58 of them, 36.2%, against 19.9% across England. These are the council's figures for all its schools together: appeals are not published school by school, so no one can tell you the rate for one named school, and this page will not pretend to.

An infant class appeal, for reception to year 2, can only be allowed on narrow legal grounds, which is why its share is a fraction of the others.

Appeals in 2025LodgedHeardAllowedShare allowed
Secondary 265 160 58 36.2%
Primary 105 59 23 39.0%
Primary (infant classes) 51 27 6 22.2% of 27 heard

How every council compares, and what the figures are and are not.

How often children here are out of school

Primary schools here missed 5.1% of sessions in 2024/25 (England 5.2%), and 11.9% of pupils were persistently absent (England 13.0%).

How to read this

In Oxfordshire, 5.1% of primary school sessions were missed in 2024/25, about the same as the 5.2% across England. That is days missed. The second figure is children: 11.9% of primary pupils here were persistently absent, meaning they missed a tenth or more of their sessions, lower than England's 13.0%.

2024/25 Sessions missed England Persistently absent England
Primary 5.1% 5.2% 11.9% 13.0%
Secondary 9.6% 8.4% 24.4% 23.4%
What the figures mean

Persistently absent means missing a tenth or more of their sessions, for any reason, authorised or not. A council's rate is moved by things no school controls, term-time holidays and a bad winter among them, so read it as the weather around the schools rather than a mark against them. Higher or lower is said only where the two rates differ by at least 1 percentage point.

These are Oxfordshire's figures for all its schools together. The Department for Education publishes absence by council, not school by school, so no one can give you the rate for one named school from this release. Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk. Read on 1 October 2026.

Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, by council, not school by school

Reading the numbers

These are distances, not catchment areas, and they move every year.

How to read this

For every oversubscribed school, Oxfordshire publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield. The address on the deadline is the one the council uses.

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Oxfordshire measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Oxfordshire. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.