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Inkpen Primary School

PrimaryAges 5–11Community

Lower Green, RG17 9QE · West Berkshire local authority

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Getting in
5/5
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
41 pupils
49% of its 84 places
Free school meals
15%
15 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Inkpen Primary School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 41 pupils for 84 places
  • 15% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, March 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (5 of 5)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RG17 9) sold for a median £550,000; Lower Green’s is £0
Getting in

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

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

5
families put it first for September 2026
6
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. West Berkshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through West Berkshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

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

1.00 per place
93% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice
Inkpen Primary
0.83 per place
100% got their first choice
0.78 per place
100% got their first choice
0.75 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

34 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
14.7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
14.7%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
2.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
17.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

No letter for Inkpen Primary School

No published results for this school: a new school, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Report card, inspection starting March 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Inkpen Primary School

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

Home prices in RG17 9, the school’s postcode sector

Lower Green property prices →
£550,000
median sale, 109 sales in 36 months

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025RG17 9
RG17 9Lower Green

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£838K
Semi-detached
£388K
Terraced
£310K
Flat
£550K
RG17 9Lower Green

HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Lower Green, RG17 9QE

Nearby

Primary schools near Inkpen Primary School

The nearest state schools of the same phase, as the crow flies. Catchments and admissions rules decide which one a child gets.

Inkpen Primary School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Inkpen Primary School?

For September 2026, 5 families put Inkpen Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 6 places were offered in all.

What is Inkpen Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (March 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Inkpen Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, RG17 9, sold for a median £550,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (109 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; Lower Green’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.