Boxgrove Primary School

About Boxgrove Primary School

Boxgrove Primary School in Guildford holds a Good rating from its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2025, but the detail tells a more nuanced story. Inspectors awarded Outstanding marks across three of the four graded categories: early years provision, personal development, and behaviour and attitudes, with leadership and management also judged Outstanding. The overall effectiveness was not judged on this occasion, but the school’s academic outcomes at Key Stage 2 offer a clear picture. In the 2023/24 academic year, 62% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is slightly below the Surrey local authority average of 66%. That places Boxgrove 10th out of 19 primary schools in the Guildford local area, putting it in the bottom half of its immediate peers. The school’s national percentile ranking of 51.4 means it sits almost exactly in the middle of all primary schools across England.

Digging into the individual subject scores, reading stands out as a relative strength. 85% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, with 40% reaching the higher standard, and the average scaled score was 106. Maths was a little lower: 74% at expected and 22% at the higher level, with an average score of 104. Writing saw 76% at expected and just 13% at the higher standard. The combined expected figure of 62% suggests that while many children do well in individual subjects, fewer are hitting the benchmark across all three simultaneously. Ofsted’s behaviour and attitudes rating of Outstanding is backed up by the Parent View data: 95% of the 205 respondents would recommend the school, and 73% strongly agreed that their child feels safe. On behaviour specifically, 93% either agreed or strongly agreed that pupils are well behaved. The school is noticeably oversubscribed — 245 applications for 90 places in 2025/26, with 97 first-preference applications and 88 offers made to first-preference families.

Boxgrove is a large primary, with 649 pupils against a capacity of 630, so it is running slightly over its official number. The school serves a relatively affluent catchment — just 7.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the national average. Facilities include a library, sports hall, playing fields, music rooms and even a chapel, and the sports offering covers swimming, netball, cricket, football, tennis and rounders. Clubs include drama, coding, book club and science club. The school lists SEND provisions for a broad range of needs, including autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language difficulties, and hearing or visual impairments, though the Parent View data on SEND support was more mixed: 78% agreed or strongly agreed that children with SEND get the support they need, but 22% disagreed. For families who value strong behaviour, safety and personal development alongside solid but not exceptional academics, Boxgrove is a popular choice — but with an oversubscription ratio of 2.72, getting a place is far from guaranteed.

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