Bury CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Pulborough, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.24 miles
Published by West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bury CofE Primary School is a primary school in Pulborough, West Sussex for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 June 2024. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Bury CofE 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 | 6.24 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 6.24 miles away, the 6th longest of 87 West Sussex primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further than in 2025 and 2024, and was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 17 first-choice applications for 13 offers: 12 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Sussex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Westburton Lane, Bury, Pulborough, RH20 1HB
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 87 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this friendly and caring school.”
- “The school’s values of ‘courage, humility, wisdom, compassion and perseverance’ are embedded into everyday life.”
- “They are proud of how their teachers link learning with the local environment.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the school’s curriculum thinking has not been specific enough about what pupils need to know.”
- “This means that pupils do not always connect new knowledge to previous learning effectively.”
- “In these few subjects, pupils do not learn as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 2024 (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: 17 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 12 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 Sussex.
- Amberley CofE Primary School 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St James' CofE Primary School, Coldwaltham 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fittleworth CofE Village School 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Duncton CofE Junior School 3.7 mi School remains Good
- St Philip's Catholic Primary School 3.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Arundel CofE Primary School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Slindon CofE Primary School 4.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School 4.6 mi Good Last distance published