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Micklands Primary School

PrimaryAges 4–11Community

Caversham, RG4 6LU · Reading local authority

Caversham’s School Grade A− better than 82% of towns in England

Its letter
24%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
25/25
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
293 pupils
70% of its 420 places
Free school meals
27%
27 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Micklands Primary School

  • Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 24% of England’s primary schools
  • 53% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9 points below England’s schools
  • Room to spare: 293 pupils for 420 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (25 of 25)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RG4 6) sold for a median £485,000; Caversham’s is £465,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 53%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 24% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Reading avg 61%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Micklands Primary 53%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 103 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading67%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)49%
England’s schools 73%
Maths55%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling61%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 11 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
0%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
55%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three0%
England’s schools 8% · Reading 9% · 2025

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Micklands Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

25
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. Reading council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Reading council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Caversham, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.28 per place
78% got their first choice
1.26 per place
76% got their first choice
1.05 per place
92% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
93% got their first choice
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice
Micklands Primary
0.83 per place
100% got their first choice
0.80 per place
100% got their first choice

Caversham and Reading, side by side

2023–2025

All 37 graded primaries in Reading. 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. Caversham’s schools are coloured by their letter.

40%48%56%64%72%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Micklands
ABCDElsewhere in ReadingMicklands Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
All Saints Junior SchoolA+10%90%
Alfred Sutton Primary SchoolA15%82%
The Heights Primary SchoolA2%80%
Caversham Primary SchoolA4%76%
St Martin's Catholic Primary SchoolA−12%75%
Redlands Primary SchoolA−15%72%
Oxford Road Community SchoolB+34%69%
Emmer Green Primary SchoolB+4%69%
Civitas AcademyB+17%68%
Park Lane Primary SchoolB18%67%
Moorlands Primary SchoolB40%67%
The Hill Primary SchoolB4%66%
Churchend Primary AcademyB17%66%
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolB20%65%
E P Collier Primary SchoolB−19%64%
Katesgrove Primary SchoolB−17%63%
Caversham Park Primary SchoolB−8%62%
Coley Primary SchoolC+22%59%
Geoffrey Field Junior SchoolC+35%59%
Battle Primary AcademyC+27%59%
Manor Primary SchoolC+35%58%
The Palmer Primary AcademyC+32%58%
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary SchoolC13%57%
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolC24%55%
New Town Primary SchoolC19%55%
Wilson Primary SchoolC15%54%
Micklands Primary SchoolC−27%53%
The Ridgeway Primary SchoolC−40%52%
Thameside Primary SchoolC−19%52%
St Mary & All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolC−32%52%
Christ The King Catholic Primary SchoolC−39%51%
Meadow Park AcademyC−37%50%
New Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolC−19%49%
St Michael's Primary SchoolC−34%48%
Ranikhet AcademyC−51%48%
Whitley Park Primary and Nursery SchoolD36%44%
Southcote Primary SchoolD18%42%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

320 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.

SEN support
16.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
24.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
28.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Micklands Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C−Better than 24% of 15,230 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), October 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Micklands Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in RG4 6, the school’s postcode sector

Caversham property prices →
£485,000
median sale, 239 sales in 36 months · Caversham £465,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025RG4 6Caversham
RG4 6Caversham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£708K
Semi-detached
£465K
Terraced
£470K
Flat
£260K
RG4 6Caversham

Homes in RG4 6 sell for a little over Caversham’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

11 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNAB−BB+C−B−CA−ACBC−Micklands Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Caversham, RG4 6LU

Micklands Primary School: common questions

Is Micklands Primary School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 24% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C−), with 53% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024.

How hard is it to get into Micklands Primary School?

For September 2026, 25 families put Micklands Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is Micklands Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).

How much do houses cost near Micklands Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, RG4 6, sold for a median £485,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (239 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.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Caversham’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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