The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Buckingham Primary School

URN 110329 · Primary · Community school · Buckinghamshire

Foscott Way, Buckingham, MK18 1TT

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 42 families named Buckingham Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 42 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 53% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.88 in 2021–2022 and 0.97 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 42 82 42 1.00
2024 44 88 47 0.94
2023 30 90 32 0.94
2022 40 84 40 1.00
2021 26 83 34 0.76
2020 43 84 43 1.00
2019 37 82 37 1.00
2018 36 82 36 1.00
2017 46 89 46 1.00
2016 51 112 51 1.00
2015 44 104 44 1.00
2014 65 130 60 1.08

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 11 February 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 71.0% 13.0% 108.0 109.0
2023/24 60.0% 6.0% 107.0 103.0
2022/23 56.0% 3.0% 107.0 106.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 19.3 19.3 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 20.4 18.0 0.0 2.4 11.8%
2022/23 19.4 16.4 0.0 3.0 15.5%
2021/22 17.3 16.7 0.0 0.6 3.5%
2020/21 19.7 18.1 0.6 1.0 8.1%
2019/20 20.6 15.4 5.2 0.0 25.2%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Buckinghamshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Buckingham Primary School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 187 live postcodes across 7.802 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Bourton Meadow Academy, Buckingham Primary School, George Grenville Academy and Lace Hill Academy. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

25 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Buckinghamshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Buckingham Primary School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 443 live postcodes across 94.949 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Bourton Meadow Academy, Buckingham Primary School, George Grenville Academy, Lace Hill Academy, Maids Moreton Church of England School and Roundwood Primary School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

22 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Buckingham Primary School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Buckingham Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.