Burbage Primary School
Primary · Marlborough · SN8 3TP
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 24 February 2026 · report published 26 April 2026
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209 pupils · 100% of 205 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 7.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 21.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.burbage.excalibur.org.uk
- URN
- 139381
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place27 places offered · 27 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
22 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
98% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 24 February 2026: Strong standard
- 17 November 2021: Good
- 10 October 2018: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.