Bocking Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Braintree, Essex·CM7 5LA
Composite score
54.3
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#5,691
National rank
#589
In East of England
#166
In Essex
Top 39%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
62%
% achieving higher RWM
12%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
71%
41 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.37
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
77
any preference, for 30 places
Last place offered lived
3.64 mi
straight line, 2025 intake · 5866 m
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.44
00.511.52
1 per place
0.9720221.0720231.0320240.9320251.372026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2025 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

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

School profile

Age range
5–11
Pupils on roll
196
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
7.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,367
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Bocking Primary School at a glance

Located in Braintree, Essex, Bocking Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 196 pupils aged 5 to 11. 62% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 19.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 39% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 12% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Bocking Primary School is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 41 first choices for 30 places. In 2025 the furthest child offered a place lived 3.64 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 7.1%. There are about 20.4 pupils per teacher. Bocking 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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