Barry Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Northampton, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Barry Primary School is a primary school in Northampton, West Northamptonshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 May 2023. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Barry Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Not published |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 had 56 first-choice applications for 60 offers, with 55 offers going to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family not offered a place.
- The school has 23.2 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire is 21.5.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 58% met the expected standard (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest West Northamptonshire primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 0% reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Northamptonshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Barry Road, Northampton, NN1 5JS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 441 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 May 2023
Strengths
- “Barry Primary School is a welcoming and inclusive school where there are caring relationships between staff and pupils.”
- “Pupils are happy and proud of their school.”
- “They know that there are teachers that they can talk to if they have any concerns.”
To improve
- “However, assessment procedures are not fully embedded or consistent across all subjects.”
- “Assessments do not always identify gaps in pupils’ knowledge or check on pupils’ understanding of key knowledge to inform future teaching.”
- “However, teachers’ expectations of the work produced in some lessons are not always high enough to achieve those outcomes.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 58% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 56 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 55 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in West Northamptonshire.
- Stimpson Avenue Academy 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Vernon Terrace Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Abington Vale Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Cedar Road Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Bridgewater Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kingsley Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Castle Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published