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Briar Hill Primary School & Nursery

Northampton, NN4 8SW · West Northamptonshire · primary school

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Ofsted: Outstanding · 2023 Inspected 3 years ago Mixed Primary
8.4/10 Well above average

9th of 139 primary schools in West Northamptonshire we can score, 148 in total — the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.

Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still — 8.9/10 against 2,101 of them, against 7.7/10 nationally. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.

How this is worked out
MeasurePercentileWeightAdds
Expected standard (RWM) 2024/25 73.0 · 73 40% 2.93
Ofsted 96 35% 3.37
Higher standard (RWM) 2024/25 15.0 · 84 25% 2.09

Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.

Get to know the school

How it's doing. In 2024/25, 73.0% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths, compared to the national median of 64%. 15.0% reached the higher standard. Ofsted rated the school Outstanding in January 2023. Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still (8.9 out of 10 against similar schools, 7.7 out of 10 against all schools).

Getting in. The school has 329 pupils in a building with 472 places, leaving 143 spare places. This means the school has real spare room, so a place is likely and classes are smaller than it is built for.

Worth asking on a visit. How do you support pupils who are not yet meeting the expected standard in maths? What does a typical day look like for a child in the nursery? How do you maintain the Outstanding standard with such a large capacity for new intakes?

Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.

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