Great Missenden CofE Combined School
General Information
- Address: Church Street, Great Missenden, HP16 0AZ – View on map
- Phone: 01494862310
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Johnny Magee
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 24 families put it first for 24 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 11 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 32
- % eligible for free school meals: 8.6%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the Buckinghamshire average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 25% a year (Buckinghamshire 16.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 46% moved to another school, 54% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Buckinghamshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 21 (0.5 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Buckinghamshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 4.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 30 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 73% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 18% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points above the Buckinghamshire average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 68% against an expected 67%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 68%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 85% · Writing 82% · Maths 79% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 73%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 85 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 45th of 141 junior and primary schools in the area
- =45Chalfont Valley E-ACT Primary Academy73%
- =45Denham Green E-ACT Primary Academy73%
- =45Great Missenden CofE Combined School73%
- =45High Ash Church of England Primary School73%
- =45Swanbourne Church of England VA School73%
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31st of 84 primary schools in Buckinghamshire for Ofsted rating
- #29George Grenville AcademyGood
- #30Great Kingshill Church of England Combined SchoolGood
- #31Great Missenden CofE Combined SchoolGood
- #32Grendon Underwood SchoolGood
- #33Halton Community Combined SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,209 (2024-25)
95th of 122 primary schools in Buckinghamshire for spending per pupil
- #93Waddesdon Village Primary School£6,248
- #94Hannah Ball Academy£6,247
- #95Great Missenden CofE Combined School£6,209
- #96Cuddington and Dinton CofE School£6,208
- #97Wingrave Church of England Combined School£6,207
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