Southfield Primary School
Banbury Road, Brackley, NN13 6AU
This school is closed (it closed in August 2024).
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr Matt Green
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Urban city and town
- Capacity
- 428
- Pupils on roll
- 84
- URN
- 139030
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
About this school
Southfield Primary School was a primary academy in Brackley. It taught children aged 3 to 11 and had 84 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Southfield Primary School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in December 2012, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 23 | 17 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 39% | 65% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 4% | 6% |
| Expected standard in reading | 70% | 94% |
| Expected standard in maths | 48% | 71% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 57% | 76% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 103.0 | 109.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 100.0 | 104.0 |
| Reading progress | +0.50 | - |
| Writing progress | +2.20 | - |
| Maths progress | -1.40 | - |
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 Southfield 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 | West Northamptonshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 39% | 57.9% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 65% | 60.9% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | — | 60.3% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 5.2% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 4.4% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | — | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 129 |
| 2023/24 | 84 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Southfield Primary School compares
Its absence rate was lower than 82% of England schools in 2023/24.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | — | 4.4% | 4.1% | 84 | — |
| Waynflete Infants' School | — | 5.5% | 11.1% | 140 | 0.3 miles |
| Brackley Church of England Junior School | 53% | 5.1% | 14.5% | 225 | 0.5 miles |
| Bracken Leas Primary School | 63% | 5% | 2.6% | 420 | 0.8 miles |
| The Radstone Primary School | 58% | 4.9% | 11.3% | 415 | 1.3 miles |
| Croughton All Saints CofE Primary School | 64% | 5.5% | 10.7% | 104 | 3.1 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 2023/24 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 4.1%
- English as an additional language
- 10.7%
- Overall absence
- 4.4%
- Persistent absence
- 14.1%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Waynflete Infants' School0.3 miles
Primary · Brackley
-
Brackley Church of England Junior School0.5 miles
Primary · Brackley
-
Bracken Leas Primary School0.8 miles
Primary · Brackley
-
The Radstone Primary School1.3 miles
Primary · Brackley
-
Croughton All Saints CofE Primary School3.1 miles
Primary · Brackley
Other schools in Brackley
- Bracken Leas Primary School Primary
- Brackley Church of England Junior School Primary
- Croughton All Saints CofE Primary School Primary
- Farthinghoe Primary School Primary
- Helmdon Primary School Primary
- Syresham St James CofE Primary School and Nursery Primary
- The Radstone Primary School Primary
- Waynflete Infants' School Primary
- Magdalen College School Secondary
- Beachborough School Independent schools
Common questions
- What year groups does Southfield Primary School teach?
- Southfield Primary School taught children aged 3 to 11. It was a primary school in Brackley.
- Has Southfield Primary School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Southfield Primary School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Southfield Primary School?
- Southfield Primary School had 84 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- How have Southfield Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 39% in 2022/23 and 65% in 2023/24. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Southfield Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Southfield 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 31 August 2024.