Buckingham Primary Academy

About Buckingham Primary Academy

Buckingham Primary Academy has been rated Good by Ofsted following its most recent graded inspection in 2019, and an ungraded visit in January 2025 confirmed that standards have been maintained. This is a significant improvement from its previous overall rating of Requires Improvement in 2017, with the school now scoring Good across every category including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership. The most telling exam metric for this 3-11 primary is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which sits at 62%. That is just below the local authority average of 65% for Kingston upon Hull, and places the school 42nd out of 69 primaries in the area, in the bottom half nationally. However, the picture is more nuanced when you look at individual subjects: 81% of pupils met the expected standard in maths, and average maths scores reached 106, suggesting the school has a particular strength in numeracy.

Looking deeper into the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, the proportion of pupils achieving the higher standard across all three core subjects is 7%, while in maths alone 24% reached that higher threshold. Reading and writing higher scores were 19% and 21% respectively. The school's maths average score of 106 is notably above the national benchmark of 100, and reading averaged 104. Progress scores are not available in the data, so it is hard to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils' starting points, but the raw attainment figures show a solid foundation. Parent feedback from the Ofsted Parent View survey, based on 14 responses collected between September 2024 and September 2025, is largely positive: 79% would recommend the school. Strong majorities agreed or strongly agreed that their child is happy (86%), feels safe (72%), and that the school has high expectations (100%). However, only 50% agreed that concerns are dealt with properly, and 35% disagreed that bullying is dealt with quickly and effectively, which are areas worth probing on a visit.

The school has a nursery provision and caters for children aged 3 to 11, with a current roll of 245 pupils against a capacity of 350, so there is some room. For the 2025/26 reception intake, the school was oversubscribed: 53 applications for 30 places, with 31 first-preference applications and 30 first-preference offers, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.77. A high proportion of pupils (46.9%) are eligible for free school meals, well above the national average, reflecting the local demographic. Facilities include a sensory room, art studios, music rooms, a sports hall, playing fields, and a chapel. The school offers a range of clubs from gardening and eco club to coding and chess, and sports include football, netball, cricket and athletics. SEND provisions cover moderate learning difficulty, speech and language needs, autistic spectrum disorder, social and emotional mental health, and physical disability. This is a school that has turned around its Ofsted rating and offers solid maths outcomes, but parents should weigh the mixed parent views on pastoral care against the improving academic picture.

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