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William Cobbett Primary School

Weybourne Road, Farnham, GU9 9ER · Surrey
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · RECEPTION 2027

Offers reached between 0.41 and 0.49 miles in the last 2 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Surrey County Council offer-day figures, 2024 to 2026.

Free, no account needed. Your postcode is used for this check and not kept.

Summary

The key facts, in one place
Primary (key stage 2) The league rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase on the newest year's DfE results, the same rank as on the Schools map. In England: 9,028th of 14,817 on the same figure. Band: Lower half.
(159/222)Rank among 222 Surrey primaries with results, 2025 results (reading, writing and maths)
Inspection
School remains Good, March 2024
Getting in
Last offer 0.49 mi (2026)
Results
60% expected standard; 7% higher standard
Run by
Weydon Multi Academy Trust
Type
Academy converter
Ages
4 to 11 · Mixed
Strengths, and things to check
  • Expected standard: 60%, against 66% in Surrey.
  • Higher standard: 7%, against 11% in Surrey.
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At a glance

Against Surrey and England
This schoolSurreyEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Academic
Expected standardThe share of Year 6 pupils who reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths together, from the key stage 2 tests and teacher assessment.
60%
Worse than Surrey
Higher standardThe share who reached the higher standard in all three. A small year group can swing this a lot from one year to the next.
7%
Worse than Surrey
Surrey and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Where these figures come from →

Overview

Getting in

  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • School remains Good Ofsted · inspected 27 March 2024
  • Reading, writing and maths: expected standard: 60% (England 62%) (county 66%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025
  • Reading, writing and maths: higher standard: 7% (England 8%) (county 11%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025

Daily life

  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 89 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 14 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 2 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 8.1 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.7 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024
  • Absence and suspension figures are not published for this school (DfE covers state schools only).

Who runs it

  • Weydon Multi Academy Trust, with 18 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined July 2026
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 July 2026 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced William Cobbett Primary School (URN 125077) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 February 2026
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Last distance offeredAdd your home to this chart
1 mi0.50
20242026

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception202630—30—0.49
Reception202430—30—0.41

Source: Council offer-day figures: Surrey County Council, 2024 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Results

MeasureThis schoolEnglandCouncilYear
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard60%62%66%2024/2025
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard7%8%11%2024/2025

Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/2025.

League table place

TableLeague rank
Primary (key stage 2)(159/222)

Source: DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
27 March 2024Ungraded visitSchool remains Good

Source: Ofsted, 2024.

Surrey league tableEvery school of this phase in the council on these results.See the table →

Daily life

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus89

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
20253
20242
20234
20224
20211

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 2 serious and 0 fatal in all; 6 involved a pedestrian, 3 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO28.12024
PM1010.22024
PM256.72024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Weydon Multi Academy Trust, with 18 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined July 2026
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 July 2026 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced William Cobbett Primary School (URN 125077) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 February 2026
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Surrey County Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE school performance tables
  • DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Farnham and the Surrey league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.