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Primary school in Northampton, West Northamptonshire

Denton Primary School

Vicarage Lane, Denton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN7 1DT

School website 01604890330
Ofsted Report card February 2026
Met the expected standard 59% around the middle nationally
Chance of a place 100% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 8/10 less deprived

Ofsted

Report card10 February 2026

Ofsted report card published, on 10 February 2026.

The report card grades separate areas of the school's work. Ofsted does not combine them into one overall judgement.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
234 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Safeguarding
Met
Inclusion
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Needs attention
Achievement
Needs attention
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Early years
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard

The report-card scale is Exceptional, Strong standard, Expected standard, Needs attention and Urgent improvement. Safeguarding is graded Met or Not met. These are separate judgements, not a league table or an overall score. How Ofsted's current grades work.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

59% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

24% England 8.1%

Average reading score

104 England 105.3

Average maths score

103 England 104.1

This year group had 13 pupils, so a single child moves the percentages above by about 7.7 points. Small cohorts move around a lot between years, so treat a single year's figures with care.

On the headline measure this school is around the middle of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Slightly oversubscribed. Of the 4 families who named this school as their first choice, 100% were offered a place.

Places offered
4

for entry into Reception

Named it first choice
4
First choices per place
1.00

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
100%

England 95.1%

Demand has been broadly steady over three years.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
84
Places
144
How full
58% full — 84 of 144 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
43 / 41
Overall absence
5%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
11%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
14%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
2%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
11%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
0

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
4

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
0
Busiest road nearby
A428

8,996 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
6

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Not published

No station within 5km

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

8/10 Deprivation decile

Among the less deprived half of England.

7/10 Child poverty decile

Among the less deprived half of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£383,500

postcode sector NN7 1 · 144 sales

Typical range
£307,250 to £520,000

middle half of sales

Detached
£475,000
Semi-detached
£315,000
Terraced
£263,750

Homes around this school are dearer than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
14%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
19%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
10%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
52%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
65%

England 62.7%

Social housing
9%

England 17%

Privately rented
26%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
49%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
37%

England 22.5%

No car
8%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for West Northamptonshire 043D and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 3–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
Yes
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Executive Headteacher: Rosie Gibson
Opened as this establishment
1 January 1900
Register status
Open
Local authority
West Northamptonshire
Ward
Cogenhoe & The Houghtons
Constituency
South Northamptonshire
URN
121814

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

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Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Reception

1.10 2014/15: 0.80 first choices per place2015/16: 0.86 first choices per place2016/17: 1.00 first choices per place2017/18: 0.79 first choices per place2018/19: 0.94 first choices per place2019/20: 1.00 first choices per place2020/21: 1.00 first choices per place2021/22: 0.75 first choices per place2022/23: 1.00 first choices per place2023/24: 0.93 first choices per place2024/25: 0.88 first choices per place2025/26: 0.86 first choices per place2026/27: 1.00 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 10 8 0.80 100%
2015/16 14 12 0.86 100%
2016/17 19 19 1.00 90%
2017/18 14 11 0.79 100%
2018/19 18 17 0.94 100%
2019/20 12 12 1.00 100%
2020/21 8 8 1.00 100%
2021/22 16 12 0.75 100%
2022/23 12 12 1.00 100%
2023/24 15 14 0.93 93%
2024/25 8 7 0.88 100%
2025/26 7 6 0.86 100%
2026/27 4 4 1.00 100%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
Yardley Hastings Primary SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2023 86% 1.6 mi
Cogenhoe Primary SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 57% 1.8 mi
Little Houghton Church of England PrimaryVoluntary aided school Good 2024 86% 2.3 mi
Grendon Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school No overall grade 93% 2.8 mi
Hackleton CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 74% 2.9 mi
Ecton Brook Primary SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 63% 3.1 mi
St Andrew's Ceva Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school No overall grade 59% 3.3 mi
Standens Barn Primary SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 53% 3.5 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 59%
Median of its 9 closest peers 59%
West Northamptonshire average 59.6%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school sits level with the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
Great Paxton CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school St Neots Good 2023 59%
Thriplow CofE Primary SchoolAcademy converter Royston Good 2022 78%
Rockland St Mary Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Main Office Good 2022 —
Laughton Community Primary SchoolCommunity school Lewes Good 2024 83%
Longford CofE Primary SchoolAcademy converter Ashbourne Good 2023 50%
St Lewis Catholic Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Warrington Good 2023 80%
Little Munden Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Ware Good 2023 57%
Woodcocks' Well CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Stoke-on-Trent Requires improvement 2024 18%
Winteringham Primary SchoolCommunity school Scunthorpe Outstanding 2022 77%
Chilworth CofE (Aided) Infant SchoolVoluntary aided school Guildford No overall grade —
Richard Hill Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy converter Leicester No overall grade 50%
St Mary's Priory CofE Infant & Nursery SchoolAcademy converter Plymouth Good 2023 —

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 121814; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 10 February 2026
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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