Harmans Water Primary School
Bracknell, RG12 9NE · Bracknell Forest local authority
Bracknell’s School Grade C+ better than 42% of towns in England
What stands out about Harmans Water Primary School
- Its own letter, D: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 9%)
- 44% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18 points below England’s schools
- Ofsted report card, March 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (55 of 55)
- Homes in its postcode sector (RG12 9) sold for a median £366,250; Bracknell’s is £375,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 44%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 9% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Bracknell Forest avg 64%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 101, maths 101 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 10 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Harmans Water Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2022 (1), 2023 (4), 2024 (15), 2025 (4). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Bracknell Forest council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Bracknell Forest council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Bracknell and Bracknell Forest, side by side
2023–2025All 28 graded primaries in Bracknell Forest. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bracknell’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crowthorne Church of England Primary School | A+ | 6% | 91% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Bracknell | A+ | 6% | 87% |
| St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Sandhurst | A+ | 6% | 84% |
| Great Hollands Primary School | A | 34% | 80% |
| Uplands Primary School and Nursery | A | 5% | 80% |
| Whitegrove Primary School | A− | 4% | 74% |
| Ascot Heath Primary School | B+ | 6% | 69% |
| Binfield Church of England Primary School | B+ | 6% | 69% |
| Wildmoor Heath School | B+ | 7% | 68% |
| Jennett's Park CofE Primary School | B | 12% | 67% |
| Warfield Church of England Primary School | B | 6% | 66% |
| Cranbourne Primary School | B− | 5% | 64% |
| Crown Wood Primary School | B− | 17% | 64% |
| College Town Primary School | B− | 9% | 63% |
| Wooden Hill Primary and Nursery School | B− | 15% | 62% |
| New Scotland Hill Primary School | B− | 2% | 61% |
| Winkfield St Mary's CofE Primary School | C+ | 8% | 60% |
| Owlsmoor Primary School | C+ | 12% | 59% |
| Fox Hill Primary School | C | 17% | 57% |
| St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School, Bracknell | C | 9% | 57% |
| Birch Hill Primary School and Nursery | C | 13% | 56% |
| Wildridings Primary School | C | 17% | 55% |
| King's Academy Meadow Vale | C− | 17% | 52% |
| The Pines School | C− | 21% | 50% |
| St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | C− | 13% | 49% |
| Holly Spring Primary School | C− | 18% | 48% |
| Sandy Lane Primary School | C− | 18% | 48% |
| Harmans Water Primary School | D | 24% | 44% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025445 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Harmans Water Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting March 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, June 2021.
Living near Harmans Water Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in RG12 9, the school’s postcode sector
Bracknell property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in RG12 9 sell for about the same as Bracknell’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
13 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Bracknell, RG12 9NE
Harmans Water Primary School: common questions
Is Harmans Water Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 9% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D), with 44% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in March 2026.
How hard is it to get into Harmans Water Primary School?
For September 2026, 55 families put Harmans Water Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.
What is Harmans Water Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (March 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Harmans Water Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, RG12 9, sold for a median £366,250 over the 36 months to August 2026 (438 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
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