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Loddon Primary School

PrimaryAges 2–11Community

Reading, RG6 7LR · Wokingham local authority

Reading’s School Grade A− better than 76% of towns in England

Its letter
66%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
27/27
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
511 pupils
81% of its 630 places
Free school meals
7%
7 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Loddon Primary School

  • Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 66% of England’s primary schools
  • 68% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6 points above England’s schools
  • 7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (27 of 27)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RG6 7) sold for a median £550,000; Reading’s is £355,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 68%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 66% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Wokingham avg 69%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Loddon Primary 68%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 108 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading89%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)79%
England’s schools 73%
Maths85%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling89%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three7%
England’s schools 8% · Wokingham 12% · 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 Loddon Primary School?

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

27
families put it first for September 2026
28
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. Wokingham council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Wokingham council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Reading, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.85 per place
49% got their first choice
1.65 per place
57% got their first choice
1.57 per place
62% got their first choice
1.33 per place
68% got their first choice
1.27 per place
74% got their first choice
1.27 per place
68% got their first choice
1.09 per place
88% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Loddon Primary
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice

Reading and Wokingham, side by side

2023–2025

All 43 graded primaries in Wokingham. 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. Reading’s schools are coloured by their letter.

45%54%63%72%81%90%10%20%30%40%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →AldryngtonEarley St Peter's CofEWhiteknightsRadstockHawkedonHillsideLoddon
ABCDElsewhere in WokinghamLoddon Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St Dominic Savio Catholic Primary SchoolA+5%93%
Whiteknights Primary SchoolA+17%91%
Sonning Church of England Primary SchoolA+5%89%
Hawkedon Primary SchoolA+7%85%
Aldryngton Primary SchoolA+3%84%
The Hawthorns Primary SchoolA3%78%
Finchampstead CofE VA Primary SchoolA2%77%
Farley Hill Primary SchoolA10%76%
Evendons Primary SchoolA−3%75%
South Lake Primary SchoolA−11%75%
Nine Mile Ride Primary SchoolA−6%74%
St Teresa's Catholic AcademyA−6%73%
Hillside Primary SchoolA−6%73%
St Nicholas Church of England Primary, HurstA−7%72%
Westende Junior SchoolA−10%71%
St Paul's CofE Junior SchoolB+9%70%
Radstock Primary SchoolB+5%70%
Winnersh Primary SchoolB+9%69%
Wheatfield Primary School and NurseryB+8%69%
Oaklands Junior SchoolB+5%69%
Crazies Hill Church of England Primary SchoolB+6%69%
Emmbrook Junior SchoolB+12%69%
Loddon Primary SchoolB+7%68%
Windmill Primary School and NurseryB+23%68%
Willow Bank Junior SchoolB+13%68%
Rivermead Primary SchoolB6%67%
Bearwood Primary SchoolB14%66%
Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and NurseryB19%66%
Keep Hatch Primary SchoolB17%66%
Lambs Lane Primary SchoolB18%66%
Earley St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolB10%65%
Woodley CofE Primary SchoolB−14%64%
Hatch Ride Primary SchoolB−3%64%
Polehampton Church of England Junior SchoolB−5%64%
The Piggott SchoolB−7%63%
Gorse Ride Junior SchoolB−14%62%
The Coombes Church of England Primary SchoolB−16%61%
Highwood Primary SchoolC+17%60%
The Colleton Primary SchoolC10%56%
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolC27%56%
Grazeley Church of England Primary SchoolC11%54%
Floreat Montague Park Primary School and NurseryC−9%53%
Beechwood Primary SchoolC−31%49%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

532 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
11.7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
51.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
7.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 45%Boys 55%
Its letter

Loddon Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 66% 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.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Loddon Primary School

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

Home prices in RG6 7, the school’s postcode sector

Reading property prices →
£550,000
median sale, 245 sales in 36 months · Reading £355,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025RG6 7Reading
RG6 7Reading

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£645K
Semi-detached
£531K
Terraced
£424K
Flat
£238K
RG6 7Reading

Homes in RG6 7 sell for well over Reading’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

16 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNABA+AB+B−BC−A+BB+B+A+A−C+A−B+Loddon Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Reading, RG6 7LR

Loddon Primary School: common questions

Is Loddon Primary School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 66% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 68% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, March 2023.

How hard is it to get into Loddon Primary School?

For September 2026, 27 families put Loddon Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 28 places were offered in all.

What is Loddon Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near Loddon Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, RG6 7, sold for a median £550,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (245 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; Reading’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.