Academy converter · Primary
Didcot · OX11 8LJ · Oxfordshire
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 139770
Willowcroft Community School
Academy converter · Didcot · OX11 8BA
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 2–11
Pupils
481
Local authority
Oxfordshire
Age range
Ages 2–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 2–11, in Didcot, Oxfordshire, 481 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 23.8%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 139770
Location
- Address
- Mereland Road
- Postcode
- OX11 8BA
- Town
- Didcot
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 481
- Boys / girls
- 245 / 236
- School capacity
- 482
- Capacity fill
- 481 / 482 (100%)
- Free school meals
- 23.8%
- FSM pupils
- 105
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: WILLOWCROFT ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- WILLOWCROFT ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Amanda Doy
- Telephone
- 01235813304
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
School remains Good
Inspection date
2024-04-25
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 62%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 7%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
5.8%
Persistent absence
12.7%
Unauthorised
1.1%
- Authorised absence
- 4.7%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 377
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 6.1% · Persistent 16.4%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.5% · Persistent 16.8%