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Buckminster Primary School
Academy sponsor led · Grantham · NG33 5RZ
Ages 3–11 · 41 pupils · Leicestershire
Ofsted
Requires improvement
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2023-10-24
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill39%
41 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 41
- Boys / girls
- 23 / 18
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 41 / 105 (39%)
- Free school meals
- 17.1%
- FSM pupils
- 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: MOWBRAY EDUCATION TRUST LIMITED
- Academy trust
- MOWBRAY EDUCATION TRUST LIMITED
- Sponsor
- Mowbray Education Trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Julia Orridge
Location
- Address
- School Lane, Buckminster, Buckminster Primary School
- Postcode
- NG33 5RZ
- Town
- Grantham
- County
- Leicestershire
- Local authority
- Leicestershire
- District
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (primary), Ages 3–11, in Grantham, Leicestershire, 41 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 17.1%.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Julia Orridge
- Telephone
- 01476860315