Buttsbury Primary School, Billericay

Ofsted's report card from its 24 March 2026 inspection grades Buttsbury Primary School on 7 areas: 6 strong standard and 1 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve highly across the school."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders have clear and effective systems that help pupils attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "The curriculum is well designed and thoughtfully refined."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Inclusion is a well‑established strength of the school."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders have established an environment in school that allows pupils to thrive, achieve and succeed."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The school's work to promote pupils' personal development and wellbeing is wide‑ranging and intentional."

Early years - Expected standard. "The early years curriculum is well structured."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should further strengthen how staff interact with children in the early years, ensuring that everyday conversations, questions and responses consistently help children to develop their ideas, language and understanding"; "Leaders should continue to respond swiftly to any emerging dips in pupils' progress, or variability in teaching practice, so that pupils' learning remains consistently secure across all year groups and subjects".

The school runs after-school care.

In 2025, 88% of Year 6 pupils at Buttsbury Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 87% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 76% in Essex and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (86% in reading, 87% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 106 families put Buttsbury Primary School as their first choice and 298 named it as one of their preferences, for 119 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 6 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Buttsbury Primary School are Brightside Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 83% reading, 81% maths); Sunnymede Primary School (1.2 miles, Good, 84% reading, 81% maths); Quilters Infant School (1.5 miles, Outstanding); and Quilters Junior School (1.5 miles, Outstanding, 92% reading, 89% maths).

Buttsbury Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 3 schools.

401 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Buttsbury Primary School (as of April 2026): 94% would recommend the school, 93% say their child is happy there and 50% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (94%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (50%).

3.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 3.5% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (80%) and Mixed (8%).

In 2026, 73 pupils (8.5%) received SEN support and 29 (3.4%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Billericay Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Buttsbury Infants School (outside), 170 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Buttsbury Primary School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 63 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Essex (97).

In 2024/25, Buttsbury Primary School issued 2 suspensions, 0.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The secondary schools closest to Buttsbury Primary School are Mayflower High School (0.3 miles) and Harris Academy Billericay (1.5 miles).