Caversham Primary School
Hemdean Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 7RAOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
Caversham Primary School is a primary school in Reading for ages 5 to 11. It is one of the 70 schools in Reading. It ranks 14th of 81 primary schools in Reading. Its latest Ofsted rating is Good, from an inspection in June 2023.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 21 June 2023, report published 17 July 2023
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years provision
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 21 June 2023
Pupils are proud to be part of the Caversham community. They are resilient and determined to do their best. Pupils respect each other and their teachers. The school's values are lived and breathed by pupils and adults alike. Younger children settle quickly into the school. They develop warm relationships with their older 'buddies', who look after them well. Pupils feel safe and happy at school. They trust staff to take care of them. If worries arise, adults are on hand to help. Year 6 pupils enjoy relaxing and chatting with their friends in their 'privilege area' during social times. The school environment is friendly, calm and purposeful. Pupils are very polite and well behaved, as their teachers expect them to be. When reminders are necessary, adults help pupils to make positive choices and learn from their mistakes. Adults inspire pupils to aim high and achieve their goals. Pupils work hard and learn well. They are well prepared for the next stage of their education, both academically and socially. Teachers ensure that pupils read widely and often across a broad range of topics and genres. This helps pupils to learn about complex issues and social dilemmas, such as the Windrush generation and political prisoners.
What the school should improve
- Governors do not check other aspects of the school as rigorously as they oversee the arrangements for safeguarding. Consequently, their oversight of the school is not as comprehensive as it could be. Governors should ensure that they are sufficiently well informed about all aspects of the school, so that they can hold leaders more effectively to account for the whole breadth of the school's work.
- Leaders do not monitor some aspects of the school's wider curriculum as effectively as the rest. This leads to some variability in leaders' plans for ongoing improvement. The school should ensure that leaders at all levels look systematically at how to further improve the areas for which they are responsible so that, across the breadth of the curriculum, learning is consistently of the very high quality to which leaders aspire.
Exam results
SATs results (key stage 2), 2024/25
50 pupils took the tests
Pupil numbers and mix
414 pupils on roll, with places for 420
Schools near Caversham Primary School
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caversham Preparatory School | 0.3 miles | No Ofsted inspection | Not published |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | 0.5 miles | Ofsted: Good | 63% met the expected standard |
| Thameside Primary School | 0.6 miles | Ofsted: Good | 49% met the expected standard |
| The Hill Primary School | 0.7 miles | Ofsted: Good | 64% met the expected standard |
| Emmer Green Primary School | 0.7 miles | Ofsted judgements: Outstanding | 69% met the expected standard |
School details
- School type
- Community school
- Sector
- Local authority maintained
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Nursery classes
- No
- Headteacher
- Co Headteacher Jo Grover Clare Jones- King
- Phone
- 01189375454
- Address
- Hemdean Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 7RA
- Local authority
- Reading
- URN
- 109778
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Exam results for 2024/25 from the Department for Education. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.