John Bramston Primary School

John Bramston Primary School continues to demonstrate strong performance as a good school, maintaining a supportive community atmosphere where pupils feel happy and safe. The staff are well-acquainted with their students and actively promote key values such as respect and resilience. The school provides a well-structured curriculum that enables pupils to learn effectively and enjoy various extracurricular activities, enhancing their personal development and responsibility. This is the school's first inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic began, offering an opportunity to assess the ongoing impact of the situation on their educational delivery and overall effectiveness.

Strengths

• Strong sense of community and support among staff, pupils, and parents.
• High expectations for all pupils, resulting in attentive and eager learners.
• Broad and balanced curriculum effectively designed for skill progression.
• High quality phonics teaching leading to confident readers.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Strong attitudes to learning with minimal distractions in lessons.
• Commitment to celebrating diversity and teaching values such as democracy.

Areas for Improvement

• Gaps in pupils' knowledge in some curriculum areas due to long intervals between lessons.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at John Bramston Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.7% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.4% of pupils at John Bramston Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 John Bramston Primary School had 23.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.3% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 10.3% of pupils at John Bramston Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 John Bramston Primary School received £7,388 and spent £7,328 for each of its 428 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £227,000 (£530 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is John Bramston Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for John Bramston Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2023.

When was John Bramston Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

John Bramston Primary School was last inspected in November 2023.

How many pupils does John Bramston Primary School have?

John Bramston Primary School has 438 pupils on roll.

What age range does John Bramston Primary School cover?

John Bramston Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are John Bramston Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 58% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is John Bramston Primary School?

John Bramston Primary School is at Newcastle Avenue, New North Road, Hainault, Essex, IG6 3EE.