Brampton Primary School

Community school·Primary school Chesterfield, Derbyshire·S40 1DD
Composite score
16.0
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#14,643
National rank
#1401
In East Midlands
#257
In Derbyshire
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
21%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
20 first choices, 22 places
First choices per place
0.91
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
43
any preference, for 22 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9120220.9720231.0020241.0020250.912026

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

Every child who put Brampton 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
303
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
41.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
16.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
12.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
18.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£9,089
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Brampton Primary School at a glance

Located in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Brampton Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 303 pupils aged 3 to 11. 21% 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 21.0 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 99 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Brampton Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 22 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.3%. There are about 21.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 42% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Brampton 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.

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