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Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery

PrimaryAges 3–11AcademyChurch of England

Wokingham, RG40 3AT · Wokingham local authority

Wokingham’s School Grade A better than 92% of towns in England

Its letter
60%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
3/3
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
70 pupils
36% of its 194 places
Free school meals
19%
19 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery

  • Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 60% of England’s primary schools
  • Room to spare: 70 pupils for 194 places
  • Ofsted report card, February 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (3 of 3)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RG40 3) sold for a median £671,000; Wokingham’s is £490,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 66%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 60% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Wokingham avg 69%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Saint Sebastians CofE Primary School and Nursery 66%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 102 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading93%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)86%
England’s schools 73%
Maths71%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling79%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three14%
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 Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery?

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

3
families put it first for September 2026
4
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. The Keys Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Wokingham council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Wokingham, September 2026

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

1.59 per place
63% got their first choice
1.00 per place
97% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
89% got their first choice
0.93 per place
98% got their first choice
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice
Saint Sebastians CofE Primary School and Nursery
0.75 per place
100% got their first choice

Wokingham 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. Wokingham’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 →Saint Sebastians CofE Primary School and Nursery
ABCDElsewhere in WokinghamSaint Sebastians CofE Primary School and Nursery
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

94 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
9.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
38.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
20.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 36%Boys 64%
Its letter

Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths BBetter than 60% 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.

Report card, inspection starting February 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, October 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery

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

Home prices in RG40 3, the school’s postcode sector

Wokingham property prices →
£671,000
median sale, 217 sales in 36 months · Wokingham £490,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K2010201520202025RG40 3Wokingham
RG40 3Wokingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£863K
Semi-detached
£570K
Terraced
£474K
Flat
£330K
RG40 3Wokingham

Homes in RG40 3 sell for well over Wokingham’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

5 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA+A−B+B−BSaint Sebastians Church of …
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Wokingham, RG40 3AT

Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery: common questions

Is Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 60% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 66% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in February 2026.

How hard is it to get into Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery?

For September 2026, 3 families put Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery first and all of them were offered a place; 4 places were offered in all.

What is Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (February 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 Saint Sebastians Church of England Primary School and Nursery?

Homes in its postcode sector, RG40 3, sold for a median £671,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (217 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; Wokingham’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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