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Keep Hatch Primary School, Wokingham

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Ages 4–11

Keep Hatch Primary School is a primary school for pupils aged 4 to 11 in Wokingham, part of Ldbs Frays Academy Trust. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 15th-highest of the 17 schools in Wokingham with published results, and 7,353rd of 14,452 across England. It was 95% full in 2025.

SATs results
In line with England
Demand
Every first choice offered
Attendance
In line with England
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Reception applications for September 2027 close in 80 days

Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Wokingham (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.

Data last updated 26 Oct 2026

Keep Hatch Primary School in detail

Keep Hatch Primary School in its own words

The school runs after-school care.

Wraparound care (school website)

Source: The school's own website

Results

In 2025, 82% of Year 6 pupils at Keep Hatch Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 72% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 86% and 83% in Wokingham and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 82% in reading and 84% in maths in 2024.

Getting a place at Keep Hatch Primary School

For September 2026 entry, 32 families put Keep Hatch Primary School as their first choice and 67 named it as one of their preferences, for 33 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Admissions history and your chances at Keep Hatch Primary School

Compared with nearby schools

The nearest other state primary schools to Keep Hatch Primary School are All Saints Church of England Primary School (under 0.1 miles, Good, 71% reading, 57% maths); Westende Junior School (0.4 miles, 84% reading, 84% maths); Wescott Infant School (0.5 miles, Good); and St Teresa's Catholic Academy (0.6 miles, Good, 91% reading, 96% maths).

Keep Hatch Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolWestende Junior SchoolWescott Infant SchoolSt Teresa's Catholic Academy

The trust

Keep Hatch Primary School is one of 7 schools run by Ldbs Frays Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 54% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

All 7 schools in Ldbs Frays Academy Trust

Who goes there

11% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (71%), Mixed (8%) and Asian (7%).

In 2026, 51 pupils (13.6%) received SEN support and 24 (6.4%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

Staffing

Keep Hatch Primary School had 25 teachers in 2026, one for every 16 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

Getting there

The nearest railway station is Wokingham Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Ashridge Shops (opposite), 120 metres away.

The area around the school

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Keep Hatch Primary School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 8th decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 110 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, public order offences and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Wokingham (70), as is usual near a town centre.

Suspensions and exclusions

In 2024/25, Keep Hatch Primary School issued 32 suspensions, 8.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

Secondary schools nearby

The secondary schools closest to Keep Hatch Primary School are St Crispin's School (0.4 miles), The Holt School (0.8 miles) and The Emmbrook School (1.3 miles).

St Crispin's SchoolThe Holt SchoolThe Emmbrook School

Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; DfE multi-academy trust performance data; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; DfE school workforce census; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics

Location

Every family who put it first was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance did not limit places that year.

Key Information

DfE GIAS
Head:Mr Paul Hambling
Pupils:374
LA:Wokingham
Phone:01189784859
Address:Ashridge Road, Wokingham, RG40 1PG
Trust:LDBS FRAYS ACADEMY TRUST (7 schools)
Status:open
Opened:1 January 2021

Ofsted Rating

Ofsted · 3 years ago
-

Overall

Latest (ungraded) inspection: The school remains Good.

Inspected 21 November 2023View full report

Keep Hatch Primary School has had no graded Ofsted inspection since it took its current form in January 2021. Before that, as Keep Hatch Primary School (URN 109840), it was rated Good in October 2018.

URN:147805
UKPRN:10086830
Diocese:Not applicable
Constituency:Wokingham
Urban/Rural:Urban: Nearer to a major town or city

At a Glance

16.8%

Free School Meals

No

Boarding

No

Nursery

No

Sixth Form

No

Special Measures

Primary Performance (KS2)

Academic year 2024/25

KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)

2024
2025
ReadingMaths-12ppWriting-3pp

Reading has remained stable at around 82% (2024 to 2025). Maths has declined from 84% to 72% (2024 to 2025). Writing has remained stable at around 73% (2024 to 2025).

Class Sizes

26.7

Avg class size

23.0

Infant (KS1)

29.5

KS2

14

Total classes

1 class with more than 30 pupils

2025/26 academic year

How Does This School Compare?

Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools

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Keep up with Keep Hatch Primary School

Before and after school care

Clubs on Ofsted's childcare register at or near Keep Hatch Primary School.

  • Funtastic Kids @ Keep HatchAt the school · Not yet graded
  • Core Kids Club All Saints PrimaryAt the school · Not yet graded
  • The Club HubAt the school · Not yet graded
  • Funtastic Kids @ Westende710m away · Not yet graded

Term dates

Keep Hatch Primary School is an academy, so it sets its own term dates: check the school's website. As a guide, see Wokingham's term dates for its community schools.

Getting There

Bus Stops

Ashridge Shops (Opp)
123m · 2 min walk
Budges Road (adj 18)
163m · 3 min walk
Keephatch Road (nr)
221m · 4 min walk
Norreys Avenue (Opp 97)
237m · 4 min walk
Sarum Crescent (adj)
262m · 4 min walk

Free school transport

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You apply to the council where you live. Keep Hatch Primary School is in Wokingham; for families living there:

Apply to Wokingham for free school transport. Its policy is on the council's website.

Safety and surroundings

Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)

Collisions
14
Fatal
0
Serious
4
Children hurt
2

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 14 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 10 slight.

2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot.

5 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.

The typical figure for schools in Wokingham is 7 (the median across 85 schools, same distance and years).

Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Your chances of a place at Keep Hatch Primary School

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Your home postcode, set against Keep Hatch Primary School's admissions figures, in one report saved to your account.

What the report includes for Keep Hatch Primary School:

  • The straight-line distance from your home to Keep Hatch Primary School.
  • Wokingham publishes last distance offered figures, but none for Keep Hatch Primary School that we hold, so the report covers demand, alternatives and dates.
  • Applications, first choices and offers at Keep Hatch Primary School for 2021 to 2026 entry.
  • How many families in Wokingham got their first choice, and how often appeals there succeed.
  • The nearest state schools to your home, with Ofsted rating, demand and last distance offered where published.
  • Key dates for September 2027 entry and how to apply.

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Capacity & Demand

School Occupancy

95%

Near capacity

398 pupils

420 places

22 spare places in 2025

2025, DfE school capacity data

Area Demand Pressure - Wokingham

Medium pressure
New homes approved:2,101
Projected new pupils:525

Based on MHCLG Live Table 122 (2024-25, last 5 years) for Wokingham

Across Wokingham council

Low demand council-wide0.84 applications per place

Places available

2,172

Applications

1,832

Got 1st preference

87.5%

Got preferred school

98.0%

All primary applications across Wokingham council (2026/27), not just this school.

This school: Every first choice offered

Inspection History

21 November 2023

Ungraded inspection: The school remains Good.

SEND & SEN Provision

SEN Overview

51

SEN Support

24

EHC Plans

20.1%

of Total Pupils

2026 academic year

Provision & Specialist Facilities

No specialist provision recorded

Pupils by Need Type

Speech, Language & Communication24
Autistic Spectrum Disorder21
Social, Emotional & Mental Health17
Moderate Learning Difficulty5
Specific Learning Difficulty3
Other2
Severe Learning Difficulty1
Hearing Impairment1
Physical Disability1
EHC Plan
SEN Support

Pupil Demographics

Ethnicity

White British
70.9%
Asian
7.0%
Black
0.3%
Mixed
7.5%
Chinese
6.1%
Other
1.3%
Unclassified
1.3%

2026 academic year

Key Indicators

Free School Meals16.8%
English as Additional Language11.0%

374

Total Pupils

194

Boys

180

Girls

2026 academic year

Workforce

25

Teachers

15.0:1

Pupil-teacher ratio

£48,871

Mean salary

2026 data

School Funding

£4,984

Per pupil

£2215k

Total funding

£100k

Pupil premium

Deprivation£88,751
EAL funding£16,252
Lump sum£149,156

2025-26 financial year allocations

Pupil Absence
2024/25

4.6%

Overall absence

8.1%

Persistent absence

356

Enrolments

Authorised3.8%
Unauthorised0.8%
Persistent (10%+)8.1%
Severe (50%+)0.6%

Absence trend

3.5%
20/21
6.6%
21/22
5.5%
22/23
5.3%
23/24
4.6%
24/25
Overall absence rate

Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.

Secondary Schools Nearby

Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to

Questions parents ask about Keep Hatch Primary School

What are SATs results like at Keep Hatch Primary School?

Of the pupils at Keep Hatch Primary School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 82% reached the expected standard in reading and 72% did so in maths.

What is Keep Hatch Primary School's Ofsted rating?

Keep Hatch Primary School has had no graded Ofsted inspection since it took its current form in January 2021. Before that, as Keep Hatch Primary School (URN 109840), it was rated Good in October 2018.

What is the catchment area for Keep Hatch Primary School?

No fixed boundary. When Keep Hatch Primary School is oversubscribed, Wokingham allocates places by its published criteria, usually ending with home-to-school distance.

Is it hard to get a place at Keep Hatch Primary School?

Keep Hatch Primary School was close to full in 2025, at 95% of its capacity.

How big are the classes at Keep Hatch Primary School?

Classes at Keep Hatch Primary School average 26.7 pupils (2025/26). 1 class has more than 30 pupils - infant classes are capped at 30 by law, with limited exceptions.

How many pupils go to Keep Hatch Primary School?

Keep Hatch Primary School has around 374 pupils on roll. 17% are eligible for free school meals.

What is attendance like at Keep Hatch Primary School?

4.6% of sessions were missed at Keep Hatch Primary School in 2024/25. 8.1% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).

How do I apply to Keep Hatch Primary School?

Apply through Wokingham's coordinated admissions process, naming Keep Hatch Primary School on your application. Applications for Reception places starting in September 2027 close on Friday 15 January 2027, and offers are made on Friday 16 April 2027.

Does Keep Hatch Primary School have a breakfast club or after-school club?

Ofsted's childcare register lists 3 out-of-school clubs at the school: Funtastic Kids @ Keep Hatch (registered, not yet graded), Core Kids Club All Saints Primary (registered, not yet graded) and The Club Hub (registered, not yet graded). There is another within a kilometre. The school may also run its own clubs, which don't have to register with Ofsted.

How many road collisions happen near Keep Hatch Primary School?

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 14 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 10 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot. 5 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Wokingham is 7 (the median across 85 schools, same distance and years).

Where is Keep Hatch Primary School?

Keep Hatch Primary School is at Ashridge Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1PG.

Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)

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