Bournes Green Infant School
Primary · Southend-on-Sea · SS1 3PS
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 5 December 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
193 pupils · 100% of 180 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 2–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 2.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 4.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 143339
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.53 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 92 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
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.
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)
73% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 11% moved to another state school · 17% 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
- 5 December 2023: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.