United Kingdom / Regions / Reading
Reading
South East, England · population ~160k · 62 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
State-funded schools in Reading
62 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 (45 of 62 here), 91.6% 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. A further 1 school (1.6% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
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 62 schools.
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Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | 1,545 | Good· | 27/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
King's Academy Prospect | Secondary | 1,260 | Good | 04/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Reading School | Secondary | 1,129 | Outstanding | 21/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School | Secondary | 1,045 | Good· | 14/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The WREN School | Secondary | 979 | Requires Improvement | 23/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kendrick School | Secondary | 934 | Outstanding | 08/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Reading Girls' School | Secondary | 905 | Good | 24/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Maiden Erlegh School in Reading | Secondary | 885 | Good· | 21/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hartland High School | Secondary | 739 | Inadequate | 10/10/2023 | Ofsted |
Katesgrove Primary School | Primary | 689 | Good· | 04/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Alfred Sutton Primary School | Primary | 684 | Good· | 18/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Southcote Primary School | Primary | 553 | Good | 07/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Whitley Park Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 520 | Good | 07/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Earley St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 474 | Good· | 09/12/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 462 | Good | 13/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Wilson Primary School | Primary | 458 | Good | 29/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Battle Primary Academy | Primary | 455 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Palmer Primary Academy | Primary | 442 | Good | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Churchend Primary Academy | Primary | 432 | Good | 06/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School | Primary | 421 | Good· | 24/01/2024 | 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.