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Battle Primary Academy
C+

Battle Primary Academy

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Reading, RG30 2TD · Reading local authority

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

Photo: Bill Nicholls · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Its letter
39%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
54/80
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
456 pupils
97% of its 472 places
Free school meals
27%
27 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Battle Primary Academy

  • Its own letter, C+: Key Stage 2 results better than 39% of England’s primary schools
  • Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • 68% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (54 of 80)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RG30 2) sold for a median £305,000; Reading’s is £355,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 59%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 39% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Reading avg 61%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Battle Primary 59%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading77%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)79%
England’s schools 73%
Maths77%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling82%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 22 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
50%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
79%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three9%
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 Battle Primary Academy?

68% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

80
families put it first for September 2026
60
places offered
68%
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2021 (3), 2022 (2), 2024 (3), 2026 (26). 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. The Thames Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Reading 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
Battle Primary
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
0.98 per place
97% got their first choice

Reading 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. Reading’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 →Battle Primary
ABCDElsewhere in ReadingBattle 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

455 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
10.8%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
47.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
28.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Battle Primary Academy’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C+Better than 39% 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), November 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Battle Primary Academy

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

Home prices in RG30 2, the school’s postcode sector

Reading property prices →
£305,000
median sale, 554 sales in 36 months · Reading £355,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025RG30 2Reading
RG30 2Reading

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£530K
Semi-detached
£413K
Terraced
£320K
Flat
£215K
RG30 2Reading

Homes in RG30 2 sell for a little under 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

26 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+B−B+CDC−BC−CB−C+CB−A+BCA+C−AB+C−C−C−C−C+Battle Primary Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Reading, RG30 2TD

Battle Primary Academy: common questions

Is Battle Primary Academy a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 39% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C+), with 59% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024.

How hard is it to get into Battle Primary Academy?

For September 2026, 80 families put Battle Primary Academy first and 54 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.

What is Battle Primary Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (November 2024).

How much do houses cost near Battle Primary Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, RG30 2, sold for a median £305,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (554 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.