Bournes Green Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–7 · Southend-on-Sea
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.5 miles
Published by Southend-on-Sea City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bournes Green Infant School is a primary school in Southend-on-Sea for ages 2–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 December 2023. Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Bournes Green Infant 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 | 0.5 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.5 miles away, the 5th shortest of 16 Southend-on-Sea primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 92 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families, and 34 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 2.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southend-on-Sea.
- The school has 27.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southend-on-Sea.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southend-on-Sea schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Burlescoombe Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 3PS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 193 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 December 2023
Strengths
- “Bournes Green Infants is a happy and welcoming place for children to learn.”
- “Pupils learn to live by the school ‘learning powers’, which include curiosity, perseverance and effort.”
- “These values run through every aspect of the life of the school and are celebrated in weekly assemblies.”
To improve
- “In some areas, however, the curriculum is not as well developed.”
- “In a few subjects, leaders have not identified the specific ideas and vocabulary that pupils need to learn as they pass through the school from the beginning of early years.”
- “As result, pupils’ knowledge in these areas is not as strong.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 92 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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 Southend-on-Sea.
- Bournes Green Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Thorpedene Primary School & Nursery 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Richmond Avenue Primary and Nursery School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St George's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Hinguar Community Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Greenways Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Friars Primary School and Nursery 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hamstel Infant School and Nursery 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published