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Schools in the Oxfordshire local authority

Oxfordshire has 371 schools listed on OfferDay across 36 towns.

7 nursery schools · 242 primary schools · 39 secondary schools · 3 all-through schools · 6 sixth forms and colleges · 27 special and alternative provision schools · 42 independent schools · 5 other establishments

About schools in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire lists 371 schools, most of them primary schools. Its 39 secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. The area also has three all-through schools, which teach every age from the early years to school-leaving age on one site.

Ofsted inspects every school listed here. Its newer reports judge a school across several areas rather than giving one overall grade, while older reports still carry the previous single grade, so read the framework and the date on each page before you set two schools side by side. Where results have been published you will also find key stage 2 scores for the primary schools and Attainment 8 for the secondary schools. An inspection or a results table captures a school at one past moment, so use this page to draw up a shortlist and then visit.

Key stage 2, 2024/25
63%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 236 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
46.9
average Attainment 8 score, across the 47 schools with published results

Top schools in Oxfordshire

Ranked by the latest published results; primary and secondary schools are measured differently and never compared with each other.

Primary

  1. 1 Nettlebed Community School 100%
  2. 2 Sunningwell Church of England Primary School 100%
  3. 3 RAF Benson Community Primary School 94%
  4. 4 Valley Road School 94%
  5. 5 Buckland Church of England Primary School 93%
  6. 6 St Peter's Church of England Primary School, Cassington 92%
  7. 7 Stanton Harcourt CofE Primary School 91%
  8. 8 Cropredy Church of England Primary School 91%

Secondary

  1. 1 Gillotts School 61.3
  2. 2 Didcot Girls' School 58.8
  3. 3 The Cherwell School 58.3
  4. 4 Langtree School 58.0
  5. 5 Bartholomew School 57.0
  6. 6 Matthew Arnold School 56.5
  7. 7 The Swan School 55.4
  8. 8 The Marlborough Church of England School 55.4

Schools by town

The count beside each town is the number of its schools under Oxfordshire.

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Oxfordshire

How many schools does Oxfordshire have?
OfferDay lists 371 schools in Oxfordshire, including 242 primary schools and 42 independent schools.
Who inspects schools in Oxfordshire?
Every school in Oxfordshire is inspected by Ofsted. Newer reports grade several areas of a school separately on a report card, while older reports carry a single overall grade, so check the framework and the date on each page before you compare two schools.
How are schools in Oxfordshire ranked?
OfferDay ranks an area's schools only where enough of them have published results to compare fairly, and Oxfordshire does not have enough to rank. Compare its schools on their Ofsted reports and, where results are published, the figures shown against each school on this page.
How many towns are in the Oxfordshire local authority?
OfferDay groups the Oxfordshire schools across 36 towns, listed in the schools-by-town section on this page. Any school with no town recorded in the national register is listed separately, grouped by phase, so every school in the local authority is reachable.

School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. Information on this page was last updated on 28 July 2026.