United Kingdom / Regions / Cherwell
Cherwell
South East, England · population ~152k · 67 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 52 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Cherwell
67 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (52 of 67 here), 98.3% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 67 schools.
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The Warriner School | Secondary | 1,527 | Good | 26/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Cooper School | Secondary | 1,228 | Not graded | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Bicester School | Secondary | 1,198 | Good | 12/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
North Oxfordshire Academy | Secondary | 1,023 | Good· | 09/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sixth Form | Secondary | 908 | Good | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Gosford Hill School | Secondary | 848 | Good | 15/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Wykham Park | Secondary | 832 | Good· | 13/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Heyford Park School | Secondary | 655 | Good | 10/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Whitelands Academy | Secondary | 575 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School | Primary | 562 | Good· | 18/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hill View Primary School | Primary | 503 | Good | 11/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Dashwood Banbury Academy | Primary | 466 | Good· | 07/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hanwell Fields Community School | Primary | 456 | Not graded | 14/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Queensway School | Primary | 434 | Good | 09/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
King's Meadow Primary School | Primary | 434 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Orchard Fields Community School | Primary | 422 | Not graded | 27/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Langford Village Community Primary School | Primary | 422 | Good· | 08/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Harriers Banbury Academy | Primary | 421 | Good· | 20/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Bishop Loveday Church of England Primary School | Primary | 420 | Good | 12/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Bure Park Primary School | Primary | 402 | Good | 29/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.