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Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Marlborough Road, Great Bradfords Estate, Braintree CM7 9LW · gbins.co.uk · 01376 326891
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · May 2022
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 269
- 100% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 19.2%
- First language not English
- 18.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2025, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Essex Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 52 families put the school first and 59 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 59 | 52 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 74 | 65 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 72 | 70 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 74 | 70 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 90 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 19 May 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 18 May 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2011
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Sept 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Mar 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
99% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (87 replies, to 2 April 2023).
- Recommend
- 99%
- Replies
- 87
- 30% · 2 Apr 2023
based on the 70% who raised concerns
based on the 30% who had a child bullied