Great Bardfield Primary School

School overview

Great Bardfield Primary School is a primary school serving Braintree, Essex, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 124 pupils aged 5 to 11 on roll. 45% 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 34.0 percentage points compared with the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to 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 106 in reading and 109 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Great Bardfield Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 24 first choices for 20 places. In 2025 the furthest child offered a place lived 4.56 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. Overall pupil absence was 5.0%. There are about 17.2 pupils per teacher. Great Bardfield Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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.