Bourne Primary School

Community school·Primary school Eastbourne, East Sussex·BN22 8BD
Composite score
21.4
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National rank
#2113
In South East
#132
In East Sussex
Top 97%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
33%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
33 first choices, 37 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
54
any preference, for 37 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8320220.9220230.7820240.8320250.892026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Bourne Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
446
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
34.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
59.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
26.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,109
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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About Bourne Primary School

Bourne Primary School is a primary school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 446 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. 33% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 5.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 101 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Bourne Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 37 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 8.1%. There are about 18.0 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Bourne Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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