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Moorland Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Milton Keynes, MK6 4ND · Milton Keynes local authority

Milton Keynes’s School Grade B better than 57% of towns in England

Its letter
13%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
22/22
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
194 pupils
82% of its 236 places
Free school meals
56%
56 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Moorland Primary School

  • Its own letter, D: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 13%)
  • 47% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15 points below England’s schools
  • 56% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Requires improvement, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (22 of 22)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (MK6 4) sold for a median £225,000; Milton Keynes’s is £349,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 47%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 13% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Milton Keynes avg 62%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Moorland Primary 47%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 102 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading71%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)68%
England’s schools 73%
Maths61%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling64%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 19 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
47%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
89%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three4%
England’s schools 8% · Milton Keynes 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 Moorland Primary School?

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

22
families put it first for September 2026
23
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
2020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (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. Campfire Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Milton Keynes council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Milton Keynes, September 2026

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

1.43 per place
69% got their first choice
1.23 per place
76% got their first choice
1.17 per place
85% got their first choice
1.14 per place
88% got their first choice
1.14 per place
85% got their first choice
1.09 per place
91% got their first choice
1.02 per place
93% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Moorland Primary
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice

Milton Keynes and Milton Keynes, side by side

2023–2025

All 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. Milton Keynes’s schools are coloured by their letter.

25%38%51%64%77%90%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Moorland
ABCDElsewhere in Milton KeynesMoorland Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Middleton Primary SchoolA+7%90%
Haversham Village SchoolA+3%88%
Caroline Haslett Primary SchoolA+22%88%
Knowles Primary SchoolA51%80%
Whitehouse Primary SchoolA7%79%
Priory Rise SchoolA9%77%
Oakgrove SchoolA18%76%
The Premier AcademyA−33%75%
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary SchoolA−15%74%
Two Mile Ash SchoolA−17%74%
Brooklands Farm Primary SchoolA−10%74%
St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary SchoolA−22%72%
Giles Brook Primary SchoolB+9%70%
Bow Brickhill CofE VA Primary SchoolB+25%70%
Monkston Primary SchoolB+13%70%
Holne Chase Primary SchoolB+25%70%
Fairfields Primary SchoolB+11%69%
Summerfield SchoolB+33%68%
Brooksward SchoolB+24%68%
Lavendon SchoolB16%67%
St Monica's Catholic Primary SchoolB40%65%
Christ the Sower Ecumenical Primary SchoolB29%65%
Southwood SchoolB−51%64%
Bishop Parker Catholic SchoolB−30%64%
Bushfield SchoolB−31%63%
Bradwell Village SchoolB−42%63%
Abbeys Primary SchoolB−33%63%
Hanslope Primary SchoolB−26%62%
Falconhurst SchoolB−44%62%
Wavendon Gate SchoolB−29%62%
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary SchoolB−15%62%
Lift Charles WarrenB−60%62%
Loughton SchoolB−25%62%
Olney Middle SchoolB−18%62%
Oxley Park AcademyB−20%61%
Willen Primary SchoolB−17%61%
Great Linford Primary SchoolC+35%60%
Newton Leys Primary SchoolC+24%60%
Heronsgate SchoolC+35%60%
Jubilee Wood Primary SchoolC+35%60%
Stanton SchoolC+46%59%
New Bradwell Primary SchoolC+33%59%
Kents Hill Park all-through schoolC+31%59%
Cedars Primary SchoolC+20%58%
Long Meadow SchoolC19%57%
Tickford Park Primary SchoolC16%57%
Giffard Park Primary SchoolC27%55%
St Mary and St Giles Church of England SchoolC39%55%
Drayton Park SchoolC48%55%
Barleyhurst Park PrimaryC31%54%
Chestnuts Primary SchoolC−37%53%
St Mary's Wavendon CofE PrimaryC−30%52%
Rickley Park Primary SchoolC−29%51%
Green Park SchoolC−17%50%
Greenleys Junior SchoolC−60%49%
Moorland Primary SchoolD56%47%
Orchard AcademyD46%45%
Emerson Valley SchoolD29%44%
Langland Community SchoolD63%43%
New Chapter Primary SchoolD−45%37%
Water Hall Primary SchoolD−61%25%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

197 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
34.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
27.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
58.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 45%Boys 55%
Its letter

Moorland Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths DBetter than 13% 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: Requires improvement, December 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Moorland Primary School

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

Home prices in MK6 4, the school’s postcode sector

Milton Keynes property prices →
£225,000
median sale, 62 sales in 36 months · Milton Keynes £349,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£0K£100K£200K£300K£400K2010201520202025MK6 4Milton Keynes
MK6 4Milton Keynes

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£442K
Semi-detached
£275K
Terraced
£225K
Flat
£120K
MK6 4Milton Keynes

Homes in MK6 4 sell for well under Milton Keynes’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 miNCB−B−CB−C−B−DC−D−C+CDC−DMoorland Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Milton Keynes, MK6 4ND

Moorland Primary School: common questions

Is Moorland Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 13% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D), with 47% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Requires improvement, December 2023.

How hard is it to get into Moorland Primary School?

For September 2026, 22 families put Moorland Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 23 places were offered in all.

What is Moorland Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Requires improvement (December 2023).

How much do houses cost near Moorland Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, MK6 4, sold for a median £225,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (62 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; Milton Keynes’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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