Peppard Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Church Lane, Peppard, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 5JU – View on map
- Phone: 01491628354
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Kirsty Wakefield
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 9 families put it first for 14 places – 6 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 8 · 2026 6
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 5
- % eligible for free school meals: 8.2%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the South Oxfordshire average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 34.1% a year (South Oxfordshire 18%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 70% moved to another school, 30% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Oxfordshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 9 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 18 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (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 Oxfordshire (the council area this school is in), 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: 5.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card January 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
- Achievement Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Strong standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 80% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points above the South Oxfordshire average (67%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 58% against an expected 71%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 58%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 80% · Writing 87% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 53%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 15 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: 7th of 53 junior and primary schools in the area
- #5Mill Lane Community Primary School83%
- #6Goring Church of England Aided Primary School81%
- #7Peppard Church of England Primary School80%
- #8Aureus Primary School78%
- #9John Hampden Primary School77%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,006 (2024-25)
10th of 56 primary schools in South Oxfordshire for spending per pupil
- #8Tetsworth Primary School£9,570
- #9Lewknor Church of England Primary School£9,070
- #10Peppard Church of England Primary School£9,006
- #11RAF Benson Community Primary School£8,866
- #12Long Wittenham (Church of England) Primary School£8,765
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