Hayfield Cross CofE School
Kettering, NN15 5FJ · North Northamptonshire local authority
Kettering’s School Grade B better than 60% of towns in England
What stands out about Hayfield Cross CofE School
- Its own letter, C+: Key Stage 2 results better than 39% of England’s primary schools
- 4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, February 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 71% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (60 of 85)
- Homes in its postcode sector (NN15 5) sold for a median £265,250; Kettering’s is £255,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, 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 · North Northamptonshire avg 60%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 103 (100 = the expected standard)
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 Hayfield Cross CofE School?
71% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2022 (7), 2024 (22), 2025 (45), 2026 (25). 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 school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through North Northamptonshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
71% got their first choice
Kettering and North Northamptonshire, side by side
2023–2025All 97 graded primaries in North Northamptonshire. 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. Kettering’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grendon Church of England Primary School | A+ | 4% | 87% |
| Gretton Primary Academy | A+ | 7% | 87% |
| Ruskin Academy | A+ | 45% | 86% |
| Broughton Primary School | A+ | 9% | 85% |
| Kings Cliffe Endowed Primary School | A+ | 13% | 84% |
| Stanion Church of England (Aided) Primary School | A+ | 5% | 83% |
| Greenfields Primary School and Nursery | A | 23% | 81% |
| Weldon Church of England Primary School | A | 4% | 77% |
| Hall Meadow Primary School | A | 8% | 77% |
| Trinity Church of England Primary School | A | 6% | 77% |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | A− | 5% | 74% |
| Bozeat Community Primary School | A− | 15% | 73% |
| Olympic Primary | A− | 27% | 72% |
| Cranford CofE Primary School | B+ | 9% | 70% |
| Stanwick Primary School | B+ | 10% | 69% |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Corby | B+ | 11% | 68% |
| St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | B+ | 27% | 68% |
| Corby Primary Academy | B+ | 8% | 68% |
| Brambleside Primary School | B+ | 10% | 68% |
| Corby Old Village Primary School | B | 29% | 67% |
| South End Junior School | B | 22% | 67% |
| Loddington CofE (VA) Primary School | B | 7% | 67% |
| Mears Ashby Church of England Primary School | B | 9% | 67% |
| Higham Ferrers Junior School | B | 24% | 67% |
| Isham Church of England Primary School | B | 10% | 66% |
| Little Harrowden Community Primary School | B | 17% | 66% |
| Whitefriars Primary School | B | 23% | 66% |
| All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery | B | 15% | 65% |
| Rushden Primary Academy | B | 13% | 65% |
| Redwell Primary School | B | 10% | 65% |
| Mawsley Primary School | B− | 14% | 64% |
| Cottingham Church of England Primary School | B− | 10% | 64% |
| Oundle Church of England Primary School | B− | 15% | 64% |
| Warwick Academy | B− | 39% | 64% |
| Woodford Church of England Primary School | B− | 13% | 64% |
| Brigstock Latham's Church of England Primary School | B− | 17% | 63% |
| Kettering Buccleuch Academy | B− | 26% | 63% |
| Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Primary School | B− | 26% | 63% |
| Irchester Community Primary School | B− | 15% | 63% |
| Compass Primary Academy | B− | 31% | 62% |
| Havelock Junior School | B− | 21% | 61% |
| Hazel Leys Academy | B− | 24% | 61% |
| Hawthorn Community Primary School | B− | 20% | 61% |
| Rockingham Primary School | C+ | 27% | 60% |
| Loatlands Primary School | C+ | 20% | 60% |
| Rushton Primary School | C+ | 12% | 60% |
| Oakley Vale Primary School | C+ | 7% | 60% |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School | C+ | 25% | 60% |
| Little Stanion Primary School | C+ | 14% | 59% |
| Freemans Endowed Church of England Junior Academy | C+ | 28% | 59% |
| St Peter's Church of England Academy | C+ | 19% | 59% |
| St Edward's Catholic Primary School | C+ | 14% | 59% |
| Hayfield Cross CofE School | C+ | 4% | 59% |
| Wollaston Primary School | C+ | 16% | 59% |
| Barton Seagrave Primary School | C+ | 10% | 58% |
| Great Addington CofE Primary School | C+ | 12% | 58% |
| Irthlingborough Junior School | C+ | 24% | 58% |
| Ecton Village Primary School | C+ | 22% | 58% |
| Kettering Park Junior Academy | C+ | 29% | 58% |
| Priors Hall - A Learning Community | C+ | 9% | 58% |
| Glapthorn Church of England Primary School | C+ | 6% | 58% |
| Earls Barton Primary School | C+ | 12% | 58% |
| Oakway Academy | C | 27% | 56% |
| Pytchley Endowed Church of England Primary School | C | 18% | 56% |
| Denfield Park Primary School | C | 16% | 55% |
| Danesholme Junior Academy | C | 36% | 55% |
| Nassington Primary School | C | 16% | 54% |
| Meadowside Primary School | C | 16% | 54% |
| Geddington Church of England Primary School | C | 10% | 54% |
| Titchmarsh Church of England Primary School | C | 5% | 54% |
| Studfall Junior Academy | C | 29% | 54% |
| Polebrook Church of England Primary School | C | 9% | 54% |
| Park Junior School, Wellingborough | C | 21% | 54% |
| The Glenvale Church of England Primary School | C | 14% | 54% |
| Warmington School | C− | 11% | 53% |
| Henry Chichele Primary School | C− | 6% | 53% |
| Finedon Mulso Church of England Junior School | C− | 29% | 53% |
| Kingswood Primary Academy | C− | 46% | 52% |
| Wilbarston Church of England Primary School | C− | 19% | 52% |
| Our Lady's Catholic Primary School | C− | 27% | 52% |
| Rothwell Junior School | C− | 32% | 52% |
| Millbrook Junior School | C− | 19% | 51% |
| Ringstead Church of England Primary School | C− | 20% | 51% |
| Woodnewton- A Learning Community | C− | 28% | 49% |
| St. Marys CofE Primary School | C− | 23% | 48% |
| Croyland Primary School | D | 40% | 47% |
| Beanfield Primary School | D | 28% | 47% |
| Grange Primary Academy | D | 33% | 47% |
| Victoria Primary Academy | D | 24% | 47% |
| Sywell Church of England Primary School | D | 14% | 47% |
| Great Doddington Primary | D | 8% | 46% |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson School | D | 29% | 46% |
| Thrapston Primary School | D | 16% | 46% |
| Windmill Primary School | D | 21% | 43% |
| St Brendan's Catholic Primary School | D | 16% | 43% |
| Exeter A Learning Community Academy | D− | 40% | 34% |
| Newton Road School | D− | 40% | 32% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025420 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
Hayfield Cross CofE 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.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, February 2024.
Living near Hayfield Cross CofE School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in NN15 5, the school’s postcode sector
Kettering property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in NN15 5 sell for a little over Kettering’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
7 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Kettering, NN15 5FJ
Hayfield Cross CofE School: common questions
Is Hayfield Cross CofE School 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: Good, February 2024.
How hard is it to get into Hayfield Cross CofE School?
For September 2026, 85 families put Hayfield Cross CofE School first and 60 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.
What is Hayfield Cross CofE School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (February 2024).
How much do houses cost near Hayfield Cross CofE School?
Homes in its postcode sector, NN15 5, sold for a median £265,250 over the 36 months to August 2026 (718 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; Kettering’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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