Harriers Banbury Academy, Banbury

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils at Harriers Banbury Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 70% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 75% in Oxfordshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (75% in reading, 66% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 36 families put Harriers Banbury Academy as their first choice and 106 named it as one of their preferences, for 37 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 Harriers Banbury Academy are Queensway School (0.4 miles, Good, 84% reading, 83% maths); St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Banbury (0.6 miles, Good, 57% reading, 63% maths); The Grange Community Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 93% reading, 93% maths); and St John's Catholic Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 70% reading, 53% maths).

Harriers Banbury Academy's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Harriers Banbury Academy is one of 16 schools run by Aspirations Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

35% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (50%), Asian (15%) and Black (8%).

The nearest railway station is Banbury Rail Station, about 1030 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Harriers Ground School (outside), 120 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Harriers Banbury Academy stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 335 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Oxfordshire (52), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Harriers Banbury Academy issued 11 suspensions, 2.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Harriers Banbury Academy are Futures Institute Banbury (0.4 miles), Wykham Park (0.5 miles), Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sixth Form (0.5 miles) and North Oxfordshire Academy (1.6 miles).