Billingshurst Primary School
Upper Station Road, Billingshurst, RH14 9RE
This school is closed (it closed in May 2024).
It was replaced by Billingshurst Primary Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Miss Marion Ley
- Constituency
- Horsham
- Setting
- (England/Wales) Rural town and fringe
- Capacity
- 630
- Pupils on roll
- 613
- URN
- 135813
- Local authority
- West Sussex
About this school
Billingshurst Primary School was a community primary school in Billingshurst. It taught children aged 4 to 11 and had 613 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Billingshurst Primary School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in September 2010, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 88 | 87 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 55% | 60% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 3% | 7% |
| Expected standard in reading | 73% | 71% |
| Expected standard in maths | 70% | 69% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 66% | 63% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 105.0 | 106.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 103.0 | 105.0 |
| Reading progress | +0.80 | - |
| Writing progress | +0.20 | - |
| Maths progress | -0.20 | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Billingshurst Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | West Sussex average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 55% | 53.2% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 60% | 54.1% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | — | 56.3% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 5.8% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 5.8% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | — | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 615 |
| 2023/24 | 613 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Billingshurst Primary School compares
Its absence rate was lower than 48% of England schools in 2023/24.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | — | 5.8% | 13.9% | 613 | — |
| Billingshurst Primary Academy | 74% | 4.6% | 13.2% | 596 | 0.1 miles |
| Wisborough Green Primary School | 48% | 3.4% | 5.8% | 186 | 2.2 miles |
| William Penn School | 64% | 6.4% | 16.1% | 84 | 2.6 miles |
| Barns Green Primary School | 89% | 6.5% | 10.8% | 128 | 2.7 miles |
| Shipley CofE Primary School | 50% | 8% | 8.1% | 66 | 4.0 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2023/24 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 13.9%
- English as an additional language
- 9.1%
- Overall absence
- 5.8%
- Persistent absence
- 12.6%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Billingshurst Primary Academy0.1 miles
Primary · Billingshurst
-
Wisborough Green Primary School2.2 miles
Primary · Billingshurst
-
William Penn School2.6 miles
Primary · Horsham
-
Barns Green Primary School2.7 miles
Primary · Horsham
-
Shipley CofE Primary School4.0 miles
Primary · Horsham
Other schools in Billingshurst
- Billingshurst Primary Academy Primary
- Loxwood Primary School Primary
- Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School Primary
- Wisborough Green Primary School Primary
- Weald School, The Secondary
- Ingfield Manor School Special schools
Common questions
- What year groups does Billingshurst Primary School teach?
- Billingshurst Primary School taught children aged 4 to 11. It was a primary school in Billingshurst.
- Has Billingshurst Primary School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Billingshurst Primary School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Billingshurst Primary School?
- Billingshurst Primary School had 613 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- How have Billingshurst Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 55% in 2022/23 and 60% in 2023/24. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Billingshurst Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Billingshurst Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 10 July 2024.