Buntingford First School
Primary · Buntingford · SG9 9HZ
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 19 May 2026 · report published 28 June 2026
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165 pupils · 50% of 330 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 2–9
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 18.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.1% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 149748
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.98 first-choice applications per place47 places offered · 46 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.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 556.56 m (≈0.35 mi)
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff distance by entry year
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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
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)
85% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 15% moved to another state school
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
- 19 May 2026: Expected standard
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.