Buckminster Primary School
Ofsted: Requires improvementAcademy sponsor led · Primary
Grantham · NG33 5RZ · Leicestershire
Ages 3–11
- FSM17.1%
0.1 miles away
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Buckminster Primary School
Community school · Grantham · NG33 5RZ
Ages 3–11 · 51 pupils · Leicestershire
KS2 expected (RWM)
43%
Overall absence
3.7%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)43%
Higher standard (RWM)14%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 100.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence3.7%
Persistent absence (10%+)6.5%
Unauthorised0.2%
- Authorised absence
- 3.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 46
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
5
Places offered
5
1st-preference offers
5
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 6
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 5
- Applications from outside LA
- 3
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 3
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (18 Jan 2024).
Capacity fill49%
51 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 51
- Boys / girls
- 31 / 20
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 51 / 105 (49%)
- Free school meals
- 17.6%
- FSM pupils
- 9
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Julia Orridge
Location
- Address
- School Lane
- Postcode
- NG33 5RZ
- Town
- Grantham
- County
- Leicestershire
- Local authority
- Leicestershire
- District
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston
- Urban/rural
- (England/Wales) Rural village
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 3–11, in Grantham, Leicestershire, 51 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 17.6%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Julia Orridge