Burrowmoor Primary Academy, March

Ofsted's report card from its 29 September 2026 inspection grades Burrowmoor Primary Academy on 7 areas: 1 strong standard, 4 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Trust and school-based leaders have greatly improved the school since it reopened."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Attendance is improving rapidly."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have built a staff team that works well together."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school serves a high proportion of pupils with additional needs."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders are determined to widen pupils' horizons."

Achievement - Needs attention. "There are pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, who have gaps in their knowledge of reading, writing and mathematics."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Leaders have carefully designed a curriculum that identifies precisely what pupils should learn."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to improve teaching so that explanations, modelling, practice and adaptations are matched more precisely to pupils' starting points and learning needs to raise their achievement"; "Leaders should build on the effective well-being provision so that all pupils learn to persevere with challenge, participate fully in learning and achieve their potential".

In 2025, 55% of Year 6 pupils at Burrowmoor Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 43% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 74% in Cambridgeshire and 77% and 75% across England.

For September 2026 entry, 46 families put Burrowmoor Primary Academy as their first choice and 82 named it as one of their preferences, for 53 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Burrowmoor Primary Academy are Cavalry Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 65% reading, 65% maths); Westwood Primary School (0.7 miles, Requires improvement, 70% reading, 55% maths); All Saints Interchurch Academy (0.9 miles, Requires improvement, 67% reading, 53% maths); and Thomas Eaton Primary Academy (2.6 miles, Good, 60% reading, 40% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Burrowmoor Primary Academy.

Burrowmoor Primary Academy is one of 15 schools run by The Diamond Learning Partnership Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 55% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

39.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is March Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Primary School (near), 40 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 165 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other theft. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Cambridgeshire (57), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Burrowmoor Primary Academy issued 71 suspensions, 20.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.