Community school · Primary
Burgess Hill · RH15 9YQ · West Sussex
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.6 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 125944
Birchwood Grove Community Primary School, Burgess Hill
Community school · Burgess Hill · RH15 0DP
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
403
Local authority
West Sussex
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, 403 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 7.2%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 125944
Location
- Address
- Birchwood Grove Road
- Postcode
- RH15 0DP
- Town
- Burgess Hill
- County
- West Sussex
- Local authority
- West Sussex
- District
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 403
- Boys / girls
- 199 / 204
- School capacity
- 420
- Capacity fill
- 403 / 420 (96%)
- Free school meals
- 7.2%
- FSM pupils
- 29
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Will McDonald
- Telephone
- 01444242209
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2022-11-02
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 58%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 4%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 105.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
7.1%
Persistent absence
19.2%
Unauthorised
1.5%
- Authorised absence
- 5.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 3.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 364
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 6.7% · Persistent 17.2%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.7% · Persistent 14.9%