Buckton Fields Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · Northampton, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Buckton Fields Primary School is a primary school in Northampton, West Northamptonshire for ages 4–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 June 2024. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Buckton Fields 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 there were 69 first-choice applications for 59 offers, 1.2 per offer, the 10th highest of 143 West Northamptonshire primary schools.
- In Reception 2026, 59 offers went to first-choice families and 10 first-choice families (14%) were not offered a place.
- Of its pupils, 6.2% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 17.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
- There are 24.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
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
- Home Farm Drive, Northampton, NN2 8ES
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 289 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 June 2024
Strengths
- “In a relatively short time, since opening in 2021, this school has firmly established a caring and inclusive culture.”
- “Pupils feel safe in the school.”
- “They enjoy very positive relationships with each other and their staff.”
To improve
- “However, staff do not always check pupils’ learning well enough.”
- “This means that they do not always identify gaps in pupils’ knowledge or address misconceptions quickly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 69 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- Whitehills Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Boughton Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sunnyside Primary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- All Saints CofE VA Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingsthorpe Village Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Green Oaks Primary Academy 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Bramptons Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good
- The Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published