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Homer First School and Nursery

PrimaryAges 3–9Community

Windsor, SL4 5RL · Windsor and Maidenhead local authority

Windsor’s School Grade B better than 56% of towns in England

Getting in
25/25
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
168 pupils
62% of its 270 places
Free school meals
18%
18 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Homer First School and Nursery

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 168 pupils for 270 places
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (25 of 25)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SL4 5) sold for a median £525,000; Windsor’s is £491,356
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Homer First School and Nursery?

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

25
families put it first for September 2026
26
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2025 (2). 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. Windsor and Maidenhead council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Windsor and Maidenhead council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Windsor, September 2026

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

1.20 per place
83% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Homer First School and Nursery
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
98% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.86 per place
100% got their first choice
0.77 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

192 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
8.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.7%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
5.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
17.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

No letter for Homer First School and Nursery

A first or lower school: pupils move on before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

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 June 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: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, October 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Homer First School and Nursery

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

Home prices in SL4 5, the school’s postcode sector

Windsor property prices →
£525,000
median sale, 381 sales in 36 months · Windsor £491,356

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025SL4 5Windsor
SL4 5Windsor

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£850K
Semi-detached
£555K
Terraced
£500K
Flat
£323K
SL4 5Windsor

Homes in SL4 5 sell for a little over Windsor’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 schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−B+BC−Homer First School and Nurs…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Windsor, SL4 5RL

Homer First School and Nursery: common questions

How hard is it to get into Homer First School and Nursery?

For September 2026, 25 families put Homer First School and Nursery first and all of them were offered a place; 26 places were offered in all.

What is Homer First School and Nursery’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (June 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 Homer First School and Nursery?

Homes in its postcode sector, SL4 5, sold for a median £525,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (381 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; Windsor’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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