Living in High Wycombe with children
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 83,541 people in 31,515 households; 34.3% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
51 schools: 39 state primary, 8 state secondary, 4 privateHigh Wycombe on the schools map →Every school in High Wycombe, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (39)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highworth Combined School and Nursery | School remains Good (Improving) | Top 7% (10/143) in Buckinghamshire | 1.608 miles (2026) |
| Castlefield School | School remains Good | Top 9% (12/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Cedar Park School & Nursery | Standards maintained | Top 14% (20/143) in Buckinghamshire | 2.309 miles (2026) |
| Wooburn Green Primary School | Good | Top 16% (22/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| St Paul's Church of England Combined School, Wooburn | Good | Top 17% (24/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Hannah Ball Academy | Requires improvement | Top 23% (32/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Chepping View Primary Academy | Outstanding | Top 26% (37/143) in Buckinghamshire | 0.642 miles (2026) |
| Radnage Church of England Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 28% (39/143) in Buckinghamshire | 1.395 miles (2026) |
| Hazlemere Church of England Combined School | Ofsted report card | Top 28% (40/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Widmer End Community Combined School | Good | Top 32% (45/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| The Downley School | Inadequate | Top 42% (59/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Bledlow Ridge School | Good | Top 43% (61/143) in Buckinghamshire | 2.196 miles (2026) |
| Holmer Green Junior School | School remains Good | Top 45% (63/143) in Buckinghamshire | 2.12 miles (2026) |
| Tylers Green Middle School | Good | Top 47% (67/143) in Buckinghamshire | 1.175 miles (2026) |
| West Wycombe School | Ofsted report card | (73/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Juniper Hill School | School remains Good | (78/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Carrington Junior School | Good | (80/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Naphill and Walters Ash School | Good | (81/143) in Buckinghamshire | 3.566 miles (2025) |
| Hughenden Primary School | Good | (92/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Oakridge School | Good | (94/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Loudwater Combined School | Good | (98/143) in Buckinghamshire | 1.15 miles (2026) |
| Great Kingshill Church of England Combined School | School remains Good | (104/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| High Wycombe Church of England Combined School | School remains Good | (105/143) in Buckinghamshire | 0.351 miles (2026) |
| Abbey View Primary Academy | Good | (106/143) in Buckinghamshire | 0.274 miles (2026) |
| Hamilton Academy | School remains Good | (107/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Stokenchurch Primary School | Good | (115/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Kings Wood School and Nursery | Requires improvement | (117/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Manor Farm Junior School | Requires improvement | (118/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| The Disraeli School | Good | (126/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Booker Hill Primary School & Nursery | School remains Good | (127/143) in Buckinghamshire | 0.595 miles (2026) |
| Beechview Academy | Good | (130/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Millbrook Combined School | Ofsted report card | (136/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Cadmore End CofE School | Good | (143/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Carrington Infant School | Good | — | — |
| Holmer Green First School and Pre-School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Ibstone CofE Primary School | Standards maintained | — | — |
| Manor Farm Community Infant School | Good | — | — |
| The Orchard Way Academy | — | — | — |
| Tylers Green First School | Standards maintained | — | 1.424 miles (2026) |
State secondary schools (8)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wycombe High School | Outstanding | Top 28% (10/36) in Buckinghamshire | 8.051 miles (2026) |
| John Hampden Grammar School | Outstanding | Top 31% (11/36) in Buckinghamshire | 11.494 miles (2026) |
| The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe | Good | Top 34% (12/36) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| St Michael's Catholic School | Ofsted report card | (20/36) in Buckinghamshire | 0.622 miles (2026) |
| Holmer Green Senior School | Ofsted report card | (21/36) in Buckinghamshire | 1.481 miles (2026) |
| Cressex Community School | School remains Good | (24/36) in Buckinghamshire | 1.19 miles (2026) |
| The Highcrest Academy | Some aspects not as strong | (27/36) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Sir William Ramsay School | Inadequate | (34/36) in Buckinghamshire | — |
Private schools (4)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wycombe Abbey | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | 1st (1/6) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Pipers Corner School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | (4/6) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| Crown House School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| Godstowe Preparatory 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 (114 detached, 253 semi-detached, 125 terraced, 197 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of High Wycombe. 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 High Wycombe →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 76% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 100%, on average across the 1,594 postcodes in HP15, HP13, HP11. 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; 39 good, or expected standard; 7 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.58 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 50 in Buckinghamshire.
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.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Buckinghamshire
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