Primary schools in Braintree
19 primary schools in Braintree, sorted by latest Ofsted grade. Grades come from two inspection systems; each school page states which, and the guide explains the difference. A grade shown with a year, like "Good (2019)", is the last one Ofsted published for that school and sorts below current grades. We don't invent rankings.
Braintree in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 17 schools in Braintree first 734 times for 726 places: 1.01 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Essex authority's 411 schools. 6 of the 17 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, 7 schools here gave their last places on distance, from 0.74 miles (Beckers Green Primary School) to 3.77 miles (Great Bardfield Primary School).
Totals for the schools listed on this page. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE; last-offer distances as the council published them.
- Stisted Church of England Primary Academy
- Beckers Green Primary School
- Bocking Primary School
- Cressing Primary School
- Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
- John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery
- John Ray Infant School
- John Ray Junior School
- Lyons Hall School
- Shalford Primary School
- St Francis Catholic Primary School, Braintree
- Wethersfield CofE VC Primary School
- White Court School
- Great Bradfords Junior School
- Great Bardfield Primary School
- Rayne Primary and Nursery School
- St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Finchingfield St John the Baptist CofE Primary Academy
- Notley Green Primary School
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