Baynards Primary School

About Baynards Primary School

Baynards Primary School in Colchester holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across both its most recent inspections. The school’s most telling academic metric is its Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard score of 73 per cent, which places it comfortably above the Essex local authority average of 62 per cent. This performance ranks Baynards 13th out of 51 primary schools in Colchester, putting it in the top 25 per cent of schools locally. Nationally, it sits in the 23rd percentile among 13,686 primary schools. The school’s individual subject scores are similarly solid: 87 per cent of pupils met the expected standard in maths, 80 per cent in reading, and 73 per cent in writing. A small proportion reached the higher standard in reading (20 per cent) and maths (27 per cent), though none did so in writing or the combined measure. The average scaled scores of 103 in maths and 104 in reading are both above the national baseline of 100.

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