Oxfordshire School Catchment Areas

Oxfordshire publishes its school admissions policy annually. With 242 primary and 39 secondary schools to allocate, the council uses a ranked oversubscription tiebreaker — usually looked-after children, then siblings, then catchment distance.

The largest concentrations sit around Oxford, Banbury, Abingdon, which together account for a meaningful share of the council's pupil places.

Around 43% of schools in Oxfordshire have a religious character — Church of England, Catholic, or other faith — which means faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in those schools' oversubscription tiebreakers.

Each Oxfordshire school below links to its official DfE record and Ofsted report so you can verify everything against the source data yourself.