ONLY three Oxfordshire primary schools managed to get all their pupils up to the minimum standard expected this year.

During the summer, 6,287 11-year-olds in more than 200 county primary schools sat Key Stage Two tests.

Children are expected to reach at least level four in English, maths and science — but only Long Wittenham, St Peter’s in Cassington, and Charlton-on-Otmoor schools got all their pupils up to the required level in all three subjects.

Last year, seven county schools achieved 100 per cent level four passes in the three core subjects.

A higher proportion of pupils at St Peter’s also achieved the higher level five grades than in any other school, and the school got the county’s highest CVA score, which measures how well pupils have progressed since they started at the school.

Headteacher Sara Law- rence said: “I’m delighted. We are really chuffed with our English, because we had a really big focus on writing in the last year.

“Too much emphasis is placed on league tables and it doesn’t always do a service to what schools are providing. Our results this year have been excellent and wonderful, but we don’t teach to tests at all — if what we are delivering manages to do well in testing, that is great, but that’s not why we are doing it.”

Charlton-on-Otmoor headteacher Michael Wisbach said: “We were very keen to make sure everyone got at least a level four and we were pleased all round.”

Carol Dunne, headteacher at Long Wittenham Primary School, said: “We are absolutely delighted.

“It is difficult because parents do look at the results but it is about each child achieving their very best.”

At the other end of the scale was Windale Primary School, in Blackbird Leys, Oxford, where only 62 per cent of the 37 children taking exams made the grade in English, 43 in maths, and 51 in science.

The school also had the lowest proportion of children achieving level five, when performance in each of the three areas was added together.

Headteacher Maureen Thompson was unavailable for comment.

Overall, 81 per cent of pupils in Oxfordshire reached level four in English, 79 per cent in maths, and 88 per cent in science.

Those figures were the same as the national average, except in English where one percentage point more Oxfordshire pupils achieved the grade compared to the national picture.

A higher proportion of county pupils managed to reach level five in all three subjects, two percentage points higher in English and science and one percentage point higher in maths.

Jim Crook, Oxfordshire County Council’s director for children, young people and families, said: “We are also particularly pleased that a number of primary schools have achieved CVA scores significantly above those expected.”