Beanfield Primary School

About Beanfield Primary School

Beanfield Primary School holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across its two most recent inspections, including the most recent graded inspection in October 2022. The school’s academic story is best told through its Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year, where 41% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits well below the North Northamptonshire local authority average of 61%, placing Beanfield 82nd out of 90 primary schools in the area. The school’s national ranking is similarly low, falling in the bottom 50% of all primaries. On individual subjects, the picture is mixed: 66% of pupils met the expected standard in writing, 63% in reading, and 61% in maths. Only 3% of pupils achieved the higher standard across all three subjects, and just 12% reached the higher bar in maths.

The Ofsted report from October 2022 awarded Good across every category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The previous inspection in July 2016 had also rated the school Good overall, though early years provision was graded as Requires Improvement at that time, so the 2022 result represents a clear improvement in that area. Progress scores for reading, writing and maths are not available in the data, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points. The school is large, with 705 pupils against a capacity of 486, and 29% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is above the national average. This context matters when interpreting the raw attainment figures, as Beanfield serves a community with higher-than-average disadvantage.

Beanfield offers a broad range of facilities including a library, ICT suite, sports hall, playing fields, a sensory room, and a forest school. There is also a dedicated SEN unit, and the school lists provisions for autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language needs, hearing impairment, physical disability, and social, emotional and mental health support. Clubs include science, drama, eco, chess and art, while sports on offer are dance, athletics, swimming and tennis. The school has nursery provision for children from age three. For the 2025/26 intake, Beanfield was oversubscribed: 93 applications were received for 54 places, with 53 first-preference offers made. This suggests strong local demand despite the below-average attainment scores. Families considering Beanfield should weigh its inclusive SEN support and wide facilities against the academic outcomes, and may want to explore whether the school’s progress measures — if published in future — tell a stronger story than the raw results.

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