The newspaper released a list of the top 1,000 highest-achieving primary schools in the country as part of the Sunday Times Parent Power league table, a yearly schools ranking. The league table focuses on reading ability and Sats scores as a measure of primary schools that have "given pupils a strong foundation for further success", pointing to recent concerns about poor literacy levels. Overall, Berkshire makes quite a good showing on the list, with more than half of the 27 primary schools listed from the region finding their way into the top half of the ranking. Leading the pack for Berkshire is Lowbrook Academy in Maidenhead, which was crowned South East Primacy School of the Year and ranked second nationally. Here is the full list of Berkshire primary schools that made it onto the top 1,000 highest-achieving primary schools ranking, ordered from best to worst score:Lowbrook Academy, Maidenhead - ranked second nationally and named Primary School of the Year in the South EastSt Dominic Savio RC Primary School, Woodley - ranked 22St Martin's RC Primary School, Caversham - ranked 32Curridge Primary School, Thatcham - ranked 64Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Ascot - ranked 66Iqra Primary School, Slough - ranked 73Englefield CoE Primary School, Reading - ranked 98St Francis RC Primary School, Ascot - ranked 128Marish Primary School, Slough - ranked 134St Edmund Campion RC Primary School and Nursery, Maidenhead - ranked 206Crowthorne CofE Primary School, Crowthorne - ranked 224Sonning CofE Primary School, Sonning on Thames - ranked 309St Cecilia's CofE Primary School, Wokingham - ranked 345Castleview School, Slough - ranked 365Aldryngton Primary School, Earley - ranked 390Robert Sandilands Primary School and Nursery, Newbury - ranked 406James Elliman Academy, Slough - ranked 594Westende Junior School, Wokingham - ranked 602Birch Copse Primary School, Reading - ranked 607Whitenights Primary School, Reading - ranked 609Cookham Dean CofE Primary School, Maidenhead - ranked 689Hawkedon Primary School, Earley and Alfred Sutton Primary School, Reading - both ranked 733Khalsa Primary School, Slough - ranked 746Holy Family RC Primary School, Slough - ranked 749Braywick Court School, Maidenhead - ranked 824New Christ Church Primary School, Reading - ranked 873

Source: The Times February 06, 2026 18:44 UTC