Millbrook Combined School, High Wycombe
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Millbrook is a warm, welcoming school where your child will feel safe, cared for and part of a supportive community. Staff prioritise pupil wellbeing and have worked hard to create a positive environment with clear behaviour expectations and a strong culture against bullying. The school offers a broad range of enrichment activities and is actively improving the quality of teaching, particularly in reading and maths.
Key Strengths
- Strong safeguarding culture with open communication and pupils feeling safe
- Positive behaviour and respectful relationships between staff and pupils
- Broad personal development programme with good understanding of healthy relationships and diverse cultures
- Staff expertise developing in phonics and mathematics teaching
- Improvements in classroom displays and revisiting previous learning starting to help pupils retain knowledge
Areas for Improvement
- Pupil achievement significantly below national averages with gaps in reading, writing, mathematics and communication skills
- Attendance rates for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND below national average
- Leaders lack effective ways to check learning across the curriculum, causing gaps not to be addressed quickly enough
- Early years staff interactions inconsistent, with some children not ready for Year 1
- Staff not fully equipped to adapt curriculum for pupils with SEND
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, concerns are actively identified and managed, and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Martial arts, swimming, musical theatre, school council, peer mentoring, museum visits, local heritage visits, pantomime trips, visiting professionals including local police
Millbrook Combined School is a vibrant community school where pupils feel safe and cared for, with strong pastoral support and positive relationships between staff and pupils. However, the school faces challenges in academic achievement, with published outcomes consistently below national averages and gaps in reading, writing and mathematics that need to be addressed.
At a Glance
29.7%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 67% to 63%. Maths has improved from 56% to 60%. Writing has improved from 48% to 58%.
Class Sizes
28.5
Avg class size
28.2
Infant (KS1)
29.2
KS2
21
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
90%
Near capacity
628 pupils
696 capacity
68 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - High Wycombe
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for High Wycombe
Admissions Demand - Buckinghamshire
Places available
6,847
Applications
5,934
Got 1st preference
89.9%
Got preferred school
98.7%
Primary admissions across Buckinghamshire (2025/26)
Inspection History(21)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
8.04795%
Overall absence
26.42857%
Persistent absence
560
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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