Chiltern Primary School
Chiltern Way, Basingstoke, RG22 5BB
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Ms Diane Charman
- Constituency
- Basingstoke
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 210
- Pupils on roll
- 170
- URN
- 134652
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01256473791
About this school
Chiltern Primary School is a community primary school in Basingstoke. It teaches children aged 4 to 11 and has 170 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 30 | 29 | 25 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 27% | 31% | 43% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Expected standard in reading | 47% | 52% | 48% |
| Expected standard in maths | 33% | 38% | 44% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 30% | 48% | 36% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 98.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 96.0 | 100.0 | 101.0 |
| Reading progress | -6.80 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -0.60 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -8.10 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Chiltern Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Hampshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 27% | 58.5% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 31% | 58.1% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 43% | 60.7% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 8.3% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 7.5% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 7.4% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 200 |
| 2023/24 | 198 |
| 2024/25 | 185 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Chiltern Primary School compares
Chiltern Primary School ranked 284th of 303 primary schools in Hampshire for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 14% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 22% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 43% | 7.4% | 47% | 170 | — |
| Park View Primary School | 62% | 6% | 55% | 432 | 0.5 miles |
| Castle Hill Primary School | 67% | 4.3% | 20% | 651 | 0.6 miles |
| Castle Hill Infant School | — | 3.8% | 14.9% | 174 | 0.6 miles |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | 58% | 4.5% | 16.8% | 222 | 0.8 miles |
| Winklebury Infant School | — | 6.9% | 26% | 182 | 1.0 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 47.03%
- English as an additional language
- 20.5%
- Overall absence
- 7.35%
- Persistent absence
- 24.02%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Park View Primary School0.5 miles
Primary · Basingstoke
-
Castle Hill Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Basingstoke
-
Castle Hill Infant School0.6 miles
Primary · Basingstoke
-
St Anne's Catholic Primary School0.8 miles
Primary · Basingstoke
-
Winklebury Infant School1.0 miles
Primary · Basingstoke
Other schools in Basingstoke
Chiltern Primary School ranks 27th of the 27 ranked primary schools in Basingstoke.
- Castle Hill Infant School Primary
- Castle Hill Primary School Primary
- Chalk Ridge Primary School Primary
- Cliddesden Primary School Primary
- Fairfields Primary School Primary
- Four Lanes Community Junior School Primary
- Four Lanes Infant School Primary
- Great Binfields Primary School Primary
- Hatch Warren Infant School Primary
- Hatch Warren Junior School Primary
- Hounsome Fields Primary School Primary
- Kempshott Infant School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Chiltern Primary School teach?
- Chiltern Primary School teaches children aged 4 to 11. It is a primary school in Basingstoke.
- Who is the headteacher of Chiltern Primary School?
- The headteacher of Chiltern Primary School is Ms Diane Charman, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Chiltern Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Chiltern Primary School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Chiltern Primary School?
- Chiltern Primary School has 170 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- Is Chiltern Primary School full?
- Chiltern Primary School has capacity for 210 pupils and 170 on roll (81%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Chiltern Primary School a faith school?
- No. Chiltern Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Chiltern Primary School have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Chiltern Primary School as having no nursery classes.
- How have Chiltern Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 27% in 2022/23 and 43% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Chiltern Primary School rank locally?
- Chiltern Primary School ranked 284th of 303 primary schools in Hampshire for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 14% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 22% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Chiltern Primary School's absence rate?
- Chiltern Primary School's overall absence rate is 7.4% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Chiltern Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Chiltern Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
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. This page was last updated on 1 July 2026.