Bowburn Primary School
Primary · Bowburn · DH6 5FP
Good
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.
Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes
Inspected 23 January 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
438 pupils · 81% of 540 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 30.6% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 152113
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.99 first-choice applications per place68 places offered · 67 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
Sessions missed (overall absence)
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Pupils per qualified teacher
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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.