Broughton Fields Primary School

About Broughton Fields Primary School

Broughton Fields Primary School in Milton Keynes holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across its most recent inspections. The school’s most recent graded inspection, in 2012, rated overall effectiveness as Good, with leadership and management also judged Good. A subsequent ungraded inspection in 2022 confirmed the school remains Good. This represents a clear improvement from the previous inspection in 2010, when the school was rated Requires Improvement. For academic outcomes, the most telling metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined at Key Stage 2. In the 2023/24 academic year, 57% of pupils achieved this benchmark, which is below the Milton Keynes local authority average of 62%. This places the school 39th out of 54 primary schools in the area, putting it in the bottom half of local primaries.

Looking more closely at the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, the school’s strongest individual subject was maths, where 80% of pupils met the expected standard and 37% reached the higher standard. The average maths score was 106, slightly above the national benchmark of 100. Reading was a weaker area: 72% met the expected standard and 23% reached the higher standard, with an average score of 105. Writing saw 70% at expected and 17% at higher. Only 10% of pupils achieved the higher standard across all three subjects combined. Nationally, the school ranks in the bottom 50% of all primaries, sitting at the 64th percentile. In the South East region, it ranks 1,310th out of 2,034 schools. The school has no data available for pupil progress scores in reading, writing or maths, so it is not possible to assess how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points.

Broughton Fields is a state primary for children aged 4 to 11, with a current roll of 409 pupils against a capacity of 420. It is oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 academic year, there were 128 applications for 35 places, with 32 first-preference offers made. The oversubscription ratio of 3.66 to 1 means competition is high. The school has a range of facilities including a Forest School, gymnasium, sensory room, music rooms and a chapel. Sports provision includes swimming, gymnastics, cricket, tennis, netball and rounders. Clubs on offer include chess, coding and science club. The school supports pupils with a variety of special educational needs, including moderate learning difficulty, speech and language communication needs, hearing impairment, social and emotional mental health needs, and autistic spectrum disorder. With 24.2% of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a relatively disadvantaged catchment. It will suit families who prioritise a Good-rated local school with strong maths outcomes and a broad range of enrichment activities, but who are aware that combined reading, writing and maths results sit below the local average.

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