Stockham Primary School, Wantage

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Stockham Primary School on 7 areas: 2 expected standard and 5 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. "Pupils attend school regularly and enjoy being part of the school community."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a well-planned and inclusive personal development programme that runs through the curriculum and a wide range of enrichment opportunities."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Over time, pupils' achievement has been too low, particularly for disadvantaged pupils."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Leaders' improvements to curriculum implementation and teaching are at an early stage."

Early years - Needs attention. "Leaders have a clear vision for the early years."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "The identification of pupils' specific learning needs is not always precise enough."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Although leaders are focused on the correct priorities, the changes made have not yet led to significant improvements in pupils' learning, and published outcomes remain well below average."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and disadvantaged pupils are identified precisely to inform teaching and enables them to achieve well"; "Leaders should continue their work strengthening the curriculum, so it is of a consistently high quality, especially in the wider curriculum subjects and early years, so that pupils develop the detailed knowledge and skills they need to succeed for the next stage of learning"; "Leaders should ensure that staff identify gaps in pupils' knowledge and skills with greater precision and take effective action to address them, so that pupils learn and remember the curriculum as intended"; "Governors should sharpen their understanding of the effectiveness of leaders' actions in improving outcomes, particularly for the most disadvantaged pupils, so that they can hold leaders to account more effectively".

The school runs a breakfast club from 7:30am and after-school care.

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils at Stockham Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 57% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 75% in Oxfordshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 77% in reading and 71% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 26 families put Stockham Primary School as their first choice and 100 named it as one of their preferences, for 28 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 Stockham Primary School are Wantage Church of England Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 86% reading, 81% maths); St Nicholas CofE Primary School (0.9 miles, Good, 67% reading, 53% maths); Charlton Primary School (1 mile, Good, 80% reading, 78% maths); and Millbrook Primary School (1.3 miles, Good, 75% reading, 77% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Stockham Primary School.

53 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Stockham Primary School (as of September 2025): 49% would recommend the school, 70% say their child is happy there and 61% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (72%); the weakest, that they would recommend the school (49%).

7.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Stockham Primary School.

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stockham Primary School (opposite), 70 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 103 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Oxfordshire (52), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Stockham Primary School issued 10 suspensions, 4.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Stockham Primary School are King Alfred's (0.5 miles) and St Johns CofE Academy (1.1 miles).