Knowles Primary School
Bletchley, MK2 2HB · Milton Keynes local authority
Bletchley’s School Grade C better than 34% of towns in England
What stands out about Knowles Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 92% of England’s primary schools
- 80% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18 points above England’s schools
- 51% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, October 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (57 of 57)
- Homes in its postcode sector (MK2 2) sold for a median £262,500; Bletchley’s is £316,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 80%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 92% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Milton Keynes avg 62%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 25 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
How hard is it to get a place at Knowles Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
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. Tove Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Milton Keynes council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Bletchley and Milton Keynes, side by side
2023–2025All 61 graded primaries in Milton Keynes. 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. Bletchley’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middleton Primary School | A+ | 7% | 90% |
| Haversham Village School | A+ | 3% | 88% |
| Caroline Haslett Primary School | A+ | 22% | 88% |
| Knowles Primary School | A | 51% | 80% |
| Whitehouse Primary School | A | 7% | 79% |
| Priory Rise School | A | 9% | 77% |
| Oakgrove School | A | 18% | 76% |
| The Premier Academy | A− | 33% | 75% |
| St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School | A− | 15% | 74% |
| Two Mile Ash School | A− | 17% | 74% |
| Brooklands Farm Primary School | A− | 10% | 74% |
| St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School | A− | 22% | 72% |
| Giles Brook Primary School | B+ | 9% | 70% |
| Bow Brickhill CofE VA Primary School | B+ | 25% | 70% |
| Monkston Primary School | B+ | 13% | 70% |
| Holne Chase Primary School | B+ | 25% | 70% |
| Fairfields Primary School | B+ | 11% | 69% |
| Summerfield School | B+ | 33% | 68% |
| Brooksward School | B+ | 24% | 68% |
| Lavendon School | B | 16% | 67% |
| St Monica's Catholic Primary School | B | 40% | 65% |
| Christ the Sower Ecumenical Primary School | B | 29% | 65% |
| Southwood School | B− | 51% | 64% |
| Bishop Parker Catholic School | B− | 30% | 64% |
| Bushfield School | B− | 31% | 63% |
| Bradwell Village School | B− | 42% | 63% |
| Abbeys Primary School | B− | 33% | 63% |
| Hanslope Primary School | B− | 26% | 62% |
| Falconhurst School | B− | 44% | 62% |
| Wavendon Gate School | B− | 29% | 62% |
| St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | B− | 15% | 62% |
| Lift Charles Warren | B− | 60% | 62% |
| Loughton School | B− | 25% | 62% |
| Olney Middle School | B− | 18% | 62% |
| Oxley Park Academy | B− | 20% | 61% |
| Willen Primary School | B− | 17% | 61% |
| Great Linford Primary School | C+ | 35% | 60% |
| Newton Leys Primary School | C+ | 24% | 60% |
| Heronsgate School | C+ | 35% | 60% |
| Jubilee Wood Primary School | C+ | 35% | 60% |
| Stanton School | C+ | 46% | 59% |
| New Bradwell Primary School | C+ | 33% | 59% |
| Kents Hill Park all-through school | C+ | 31% | 59% |
| Cedars Primary School | C+ | 20% | 58% |
| Long Meadow School | C | 19% | 57% |
| Tickford Park Primary School | C | 16% | 57% |
| Giffard Park Primary School | C | 27% | 55% |
| St Mary and St Giles Church of England School | C | 39% | 55% |
| Drayton Park School | C | 48% | 55% |
| Barleyhurst Park Primary | C | 31% | 54% |
| Chestnuts Primary School | C− | 37% | 53% |
| St Mary's Wavendon CofE Primary | C− | 30% | 52% |
| Rickley Park Primary School | C− | 29% | 51% |
| Green Park School | C− | 17% | 50% |
| Greenleys Junior School | C− | 60% | 49% |
| Moorland Primary School | D | 56% | 47% |
| Orchard Academy | D | 46% | 45% |
| Emerson Valley School | D | 29% | 44% |
| Langland Community School | D | 63% | 43% |
| New Chapter Primary School | D− | 45% | 37% |
| Water Hall Primary School | D− | 61% | 25% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025347 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.
Girls and boys
Knowles Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, October 2023.
Living near Knowles Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in MK2 2, the school’s postcode sector
Bletchley property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in MK2 2 sell for well under Bletchley’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
14 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Bletchley, MK2 2HB
Knowles Primary School: common questions
Is Knowles Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 92% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 80% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, October 2023.
How hard is it to get into Knowles Primary School?
For September 2026, 57 families put Knowles Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 58 places were offered in all.
What is Knowles Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2023).
How much do houses cost near Knowles Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, MK2 2, sold for a median £262,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (260 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; Bletchley’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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