Longfields Primary and Nursery School, Bicester

Ofsted's report card from its 23 June 2026 inspection grades Longfields Primary and Nursery School on 7 areas: 4 expected standard and 3 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have high expectations for attendance and behaviour."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders prioritise inclusion and consequently it is clear that this is a school where all are welcomed."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Recent changes in leadership have made a notable and highly positive difference to the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The personal development curriculum is well sequenced."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Previous weaknesses mean that too many pupils have not secured their reading, writing and mathematical knowledge sufficiently well by the end of Year 6."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "The quality of teaching is variable."

Early years - Needs attention. "Leaders have established a suitably sequenced curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should improve the consistency in the approaches teachers take when making adaptions to learning to support all pupils in accessing the curriculum"; "Leaders should ensure that teaching across the school helps all pupils secure their basic skills in reading, writing and mathematical knowledge from the early years to Year 6"; "Leaders should ensure that staff teach the youngest children to use the correct letter formation and pencil grip when writing".

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils at Longfields Primary and Nursery School reached the expected standard in reading and 60% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 75% in Oxfordshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 65% in reading and 49% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 33 families put Longfields Primary and Nursery School as their first choice and 80 named it as one of their preferences, for 33 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Longfields Primary and Nursery School are Brookside Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 75% reading, 75% maths); St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bicester (0.5 miles); Glory Farm Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 75% reading, 68% maths); and Bure Park Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 82% reading, 82% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Longfields Primary and Nursery School.

28.5% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (58%), Asian (8%) and Mixed (7%).

The nearest railway station is Bicester North Rail Station, about 320 metres away (roughly a 4-minute walk).

1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bicester North Railway Station (outside), 380 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 237 crimes within a mile of the school, most often shoplifting, violence and sexual offences and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Oxfordshire (52), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Longfields Primary and Nursery School issued 22 suspensions, 5.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Longfields Primary and Nursery School are The Cooper School (0.5 miles), The Bicester School (0.6 miles) and Whitelands Academy (1.2 miles).