Living in Banbury with children
Banbury, Oxfordshire and West Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 52,041 people in 21,691 households; 29.6% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
43 schools: 33 state primary, 6 state secondary, 4 privateBanbury on the schools map →Every school in Banbury, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (33)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cropredy Church of England Primary School | Requires improvement | Top 4% (8/231) in Oxfordshire | 7.108 miles (2026) |
| The Grange Community Primary School | School remains Good | Top 6% (12/231) in Oxfordshire | 1.267 miles (2025) |
| Orchard Fields Community School | Improved significantly | Top 11% (25/231) in Oxfordshire | 1.405 miles (2025) |
| Greatworth Primary School | Good | Top 15% (21/141) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Deddington Church of England Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 20% (46/231) in Oxfordshire | 3.473 miles (2026) |
| Brailes Church of England Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 21% (34/166) in Warwickshire | — |
| Queensway School | Good | Top 23% (51/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.995 miles (2025) |
| Hook Norton Church of England Primary School | School remains Good | Top 29% (66/231) in Oxfordshire | 5.145 miles (2025) |
| William Morris Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 30% (67/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.411 miles (2026) |
| Hardwick Primary School and Nursery | Good | Top 33% (75/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.427 miles (2026) |
| Hornton Primary School | Good | Top 35% (79/231) in Oxfordshire | 4.596 miles (2026) |
| Wroxton Church of England Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 37% (85/231) in Oxfordshire | 1.557 miles (2026) |
| Dashwood Banbury Academy | School remains Good | Top 39% (90/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.624 miles (2026) |
| Sibford Gower Endowed Primary School | Good | Top 44% (101/231) in Oxfordshire | 8.224 miles (2026) |
| Longford Park Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 48% (109/231) in Oxfordshire | 4.502 miles (2026) |
| Middleton Cheney Primary Academy | Ofsted report card | (78/141) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Harriers Banbury Academy | School remains Good | (138/231) in Oxfordshire | 3.034 miles (2026) |
| Christopher Rawlins Church of England Primary School | School remains Good | (150/231) in Oxfordshire | 1.397 miles (2026) |
| Kings Sutton Primary Academy | Good | (91/141) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Hill View Primary School | Good | (158/231) in Oxfordshire | 1.087 miles (2026) |
| Bishop Loveday Church of England Primary School | Ofsted report card | (180/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.49 miles (2026) |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury | Good | (184/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.855 miles (2026) |
| Bloxham Church of England Primary School | Requires improvement | (189/231) in Oxfordshire | 3.896 miles (2025) |
| Hanwell Fields Community School | Good | (201/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.995 miles (2026) |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Banbury | Good | (207/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.28 miles (2026) |
| St Leonard's Church of England Primary School | Ofsted report card | (212/231) in Oxfordshire | 0.729 miles (2025) |
| St John's Catholic Primary School | Good | (214/231) in Oxfordshire | 1.227 miles (2026) |
| Bishop Carpenter Church of England Primary School | School remains Good | (215/231) in Oxfordshire | 3.183 miles (2026) |
| Chipping Warden Primary Academy | Good | (133/141) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Culworth Church of England Primary Academy | Good | (134/141) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Newbottle and Charlton Church of England Primary School | Good | (140/141) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Chacombe CEVA Primary Academy | Standards maintained | (141/141) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Cherry Fields Primary School | Outstanding | — | 1.479 miles (2026) |
State secondary schools (6)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chenderit School | Good | Top 35% (7/20) in West Northamptonshire | — |
| Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sixth Form | Good | Top 30% (12/41) in Oxfordshire | 0.956 miles (2026) |
| North Oxfordshire Academy | School remains Good | Top 40% (16/41) in Oxfordshire | 2.636 miles (2026) |
| The Warriner School | Good | Top 49% (20/41) in Oxfordshire | 2.017 miles (2026) |
| Futures Institute Banbury | School remains Good | (25/41) in Oxfordshire | — |
| Wykham Park | School remains Good | (36/41) in Oxfordshire | 1.571 miles (2026) |
Private schools (4)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tudor Hall School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | Top 50% (10/20) in Oxfordshire | — |
| Bloxham School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | (14/20) in Oxfordshire | — |
| Sibford School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | (20/20) in Oxfordshire | — |
| St John's Priory School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards not met | — | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (110 detached, 181 semi-detached, 144 terraced, 70 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Banbury. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Banbury →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 85% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 96%, on average across the 2,602 postcodes in OX16, OX15, OX17. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 4 outstanding; 1 strong or better in every area; 25 good, or expected standard; 1 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.58 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 23 in Oxfordshire · 8 in West Northamptonshire.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 19 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
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