Bugbrooke Community Primary School

Bugbrooke Community Primary School is a happy, caring school where pupils feel safe, behave well and are proud to take on responsibilities. Inspectors found high expectations and a broad, well-sequenced curriculum, with particularly strong early years provision, reading and personal development. Pupils with SEND are identified quickly and achieve well, national test performance has improved, and parents and staff speak warmly about the school. The main areas for improvement concern consistency in teaching and assessment. Sometimes explanations and learning activities do not focus closely enough on the important knowledge in the planned curriculum, and routines for checking pupils’ understanding are not consistently established. As a result, some pupils do not gain knowledge securely, forget what they have learned, or are not given enough time to correct mistakes and deepen their understanding. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and under current arrangements it did not receive an overall effectiveness grade. Safeguarding arrangements are effective, and leadership is collaborative, with staff feeling supported and valued.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, feel safe and are well cared for.
• Pupils behave sensibly, politely and respectfully around school.
• The school has high expectations for all pupils.
• Pupils’ performance in national tests has improved.
• Children in the early years get off to a great start in a well-designed learning environment.
• The curriculum is broad, challenging and well sequenced across subjects.
• Pupils with SEND are identified quickly and achieve well.
• Reading is taught well from the start of Reception, with effective support for pupils who fall behind.
• Pupils enjoy learning and discuss their ideas readily.
• The personal development curriculum teaches safety, relationships, British values and respect for difference.
• Leaders and staff work collaboratively, and staff feel supported to develop their expertise.
• Parents appreciate the warm, caring environment.

Areas for Improvement

• Sometimes explanations and learning activities do not focus closely enough on the important knowledge pupils need to learn.
• Some pupils do not gain knowledge securely and forget what they have learned.
• Routines for checking pupils’ understanding are not well established in some subjects.
• Pupils’ misconceptions and knowledge gaps are sometimes not identified or corrected quickly enough.
• Teachers sometimes do not give pupils sufficient time to correct mistakes or improve their work.

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 Bugbrooke Community Primary School attended 94.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.0% 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, 0.9% of pupils at Bugbrooke Community 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 Bugbrooke Community Primary School had 23.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.8% 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, 14.1% of pupils at Bugbrooke Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.5% 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 Bugbrooke Community Primary School received £7,231 and spent £7,594 for each of its 192 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £94,000 (-£487 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 Bugbrooke Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Bugbrooke Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was Bugbrooke Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Bugbrooke Community Primary School was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does Bugbrooke Community Primary School have?

Bugbrooke Community Primary School has 192 pupils on roll.

What age range does Bugbrooke Community Primary School cover?

Bugbrooke Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Bugbrooke Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 56% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Bugbrooke Community Primary School?

Bugbrooke Community Primary School is at High Street, Bugbrooke, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN7 3PA.