Goddard Park Community Primary School, Swindon

Ofsted's report card from its 15 September 2026 inspection grades Goddard Park Community Primary School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Work to improve pupils' important curriculum knowledge and skills in speaking and listening, reading, writing and mathematics is having a positive effect."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Attendance is broadly in line with national averages for most groups, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have recently introduced a redesigned curriculum from early years to Year 6."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have placed early years at the heart of school improvement."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have established an inclusive culture where pupils' needs are identified quickly and accurately."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, including governors, have a clear understanding of the school and the community they serve."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a broad and thoughtfully designed programme that supports pupils' personal development and wellbeing effectively."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue their work to refine and target their attendance work with parents and carers so that attendance for all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, continues to rise"; "Leaders should strengthen their monitoring and analysis of the impact of the school's work to support strategic decision-making and drive future improvement".

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils at Goddard Park Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 72% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 73% in Swindon and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 65% in reading and 68% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 67 families put Goddard Park Community Primary School as their first choice and 105 named it as one of their preferences, for 68 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Goddard Park Community Primary School are Holy Family Catholic Primary School (0.3 miles, Requires improvement, 73% reading, 70% maths); Oaktree Nursery and Primary School (0.5 miles, 50% reading, 52% maths); Eldene Nursery and Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 53% reading, 49% maths); and Nythe Primary School (0.5 miles, 52% reading, 48% maths).

Goddard Park Community Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

53.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Swindon Rail Station, about 1.7 miles away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Welcombe Avenue Shop (n-bound), 140 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Goddard Park Community Primary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 270 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Swindon (132), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Goddard Park Community Primary School issued 1 suspension, 0.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Goddard Park Community Primary School are The Dorcan Academy (0.7 miles), Lawn Manor Academy (0.7 miles) and St Joseph's Catholic College (0.8 miles).