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Monkwood Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Rawmarsh, S62 7JD · Rotherham local authority

Rawmarsh’s School Grade C− better than 23% of towns in England

Its letter
22%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
45/45
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
436 pupils
97% of its 450 places
Free school meals
29%
29 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Monkwood Primary School

  • Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 22% of England’s primary schools
  • 52% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10 points below England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (45 of 45)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (S62 7) sold for a median £181,750; Rawmarsh’s is £155,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 52%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 22% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Rotherham avg 58%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Monkwood Primary 52%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 101, maths 101 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading60%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)67%
England’s schools 73%
Maths67%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling53%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 18 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
56%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
57%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three7%
England’s schools 8% · Rotherham 6% · 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 Monkwood Primary School?

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

45
families put it first for September 2026
45
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: 2020 (1), 2021 (1). 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. Wickersley Partnership Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Rotherham council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Rawmarsh, September 2026

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

1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Monkwood Primary
1.00 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
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice

Rawmarsh and Rotherham, side by side

2023–2025

All 85 graded primaries in Rotherham. 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. Rawmarsh’s schools are coloured by their letter.

10%25%40%55%70%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Rawmarsh Rosehill JuniorRawmarsh Thorogate Junior and InfantSt Joseph's CatholicRawmarsh AshwoodRawmarsh Sandhill
ABCDElsewhere in RotherhamMonkwood Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St Alban's CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolA+10%92%
Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant SchoolA+14%91%
Woodsetts Primary SchoolA+13%87%
Roughwood Primary SchoolA+44%84%
Herringthorpe Junior SchoolA32%82%
Wickersley Northfield Primary SchoolA10%79%
Aston Fence Junior and Infant SchoolA11%77%
Todwick Primary SchoolA−6%75%
Wales Primary SchoolA−17%74%
Aston Hall Junior and Infant SchoolA−6%74%
Swallownest Primary SchoolA−21%74%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolA−25%72%
Wath Church of England Primary SchoolA−18%72%
Sitwell Junior SchoolB+18%70%
Bramley Grange Primary SchoolB+17%70%
Listerdale Primary AcademyB+8%70%
Greasbrough Primary SchoolB+30%70%
Waverley Primary AcademyB+8%70%
Our Lady and St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolB+21%69%
St Bede's Catholic Primary SchoolB+15%69%
St Gerard's Catholic Primary SchoolB+18%69%
Anston Greenlands Primary SchoolB+12%68%
Thurcroft Junior AcademyB46%67%
Aston All Saints CofE (A) Primary SchoolB11%67%
Wentworth CofE Junior and Infant SchoolB7%67%
Maltby Lilly Hall AcademyB14%66%
Ravenfield Primary AcademyB11%66%
Kilnhurst Primary SchoolB18%66%
Flanderwell Primary SchoolB14%65%
Anston Hillcrest Primary SchoolB11%65%
Thorpe Hesley Primary SchoolB8%65%
Coleridge PrimaryB−58%64%
Brampton Ellis CofE Primary SchoolB−21%64%
Redscope Primary SchoolB−42%64%
Treeton Church of England Primary SchoolB−16%63%
Brinsworth Howarth Primary SchoolB−13%63%
Blackburn Primary SchoolB−25%62%
Kimberworth Community Primary SchoolB−44%61%
Maltby Redwood AcademyB−20%61%
Trinity Croft CofE Primary AcademyC+36%60%
Rawmarsh Rosehill Junior SchoolC+45%59%
Swinton Queen Primary SchoolC+26%59%
Bramley Sunnyside Junior SchoolC+16%59%
High Greave Junior SchoolC+67%58%
Swinton Fitzwilliam Primary SchoolC21%57%
Harthill Primary SchoolC12%57%
Thrybergh Fullerton Church of England Primary AcademyC33%56%
Aston Lodge Primary SchoolC34%56%
Aughton Primary AcademyC38%56%
Kilnhurst St Thomas' CofE Primary AcademyC28%56%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolC46%55%
Rawmarsh Sandhill Primary SchoolC39%55%
Thornhill Primary SchoolC41%54%
Rawmarsh Thorogate Junior and Infant SchoolC16%54%
Whiston Junior and Infant SchoolC18%54%
Catcliffe Primary SchoolC36%54%
Brinsworth Manor Junior SchoolC22%54%
Brookfield Primary AcademyC−35%53%
Monkwood Primary SchoolC−29%52%
Brinsworth Whitehill Primary SchoolC−19%51%
Laughton Junior and Infant SchoolC−13%51%
Maltby Manor AcademyC−37%50%
Rockingham Junior and Infant SchoolC−33%50%
Broom Valley Community SchoolC−46%48%
Rawmarsh Ashwood Primary SchoolC−32%48%
Wath Central Primary SchoolC−28%48%
Kiveton Park Meadows Junior SchoolC−34%48%
Meadow View Primary SchoolC−47%48%
East Dene PrimaryD59%47%
Springwood Primary AcademyD30%45%
Crags Community SchoolD65%45%
Laughton All Saints' CofE Primary SchoolD14%45%
Anston Brook Primary SchoolD22%43%
Thrybergh Primary SchoolD62%42%
Highfield Farm Primary SchoolD61%42%
Badsley Primary SchoolD58%41%
Wath Victoria Primary SchoolD42%41%
Canklow Woods Primary SchoolD62%40%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolD−37%38%
St Ann's Primary SchoolD−58%38%
Eastwood Village Primary SchoolD−80%36%
Dinnington Community Primary SchoolD−62%34%
St Mary's Catholic Primary School (Maltby)D−40%28%
Foljambe Primary SchoolD−65%19%
Ferham Primary SchoolD−71%12%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

423 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
26.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.9%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
31.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

Monkwood Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C−Better than 22% 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: Good, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Monkwood Primary School

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

Home prices in S62 7, the school’s postcode sector

Rawmarsh property prices →
£181,750
median sale, 262 sales in 36 months · Rawmarsh £155,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025S62 7Rawmarsh
S62 7Rawmarsh

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£330K
Semi-detached
£160K
Terraced
£150K
S62 7Rawmarsh

Homes in S62 7 sell for well over Rawmarsh’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

11 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+CCC−C−B+CCCC−C−Monkwood Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Rawmarsh, S62 7JD

Monkwood Primary School: common questions

Is Monkwood Primary School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 22% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C−), with 52% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2023.

How hard is it to get into Monkwood Primary School?

For September 2026, 45 families put Monkwood Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 45 places were offered in all.

What is Monkwood Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).

How much do houses cost near Monkwood Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, S62 7, sold for a median £181,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (262 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; Rawmarsh’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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