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Beaufront First School

PrimaryAges 4–9Community

near Acomb, NE46 4LY · Northumberland local authority

Acomb’s School Grade A− better than 79% of towns in England

Getting in
15/16
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
62 pupils
83% of its 75 places
Free school meals
2%
2 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Beaufront First School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Acomb, the nearest town
  • 94% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (15 of 16)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NE46 4) sold for a median £340,000; Acomb’s is £227,500
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Beaufront First School?

94% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

16
families put it first for September 2026
15
places offered
94%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (3), 2021 (8), 2023 (1), 2026 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Northumberland council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Northumberland council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.13 per place
88% got their first choice
Beaufront First
1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.02 per place
98% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

66 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
7.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
6.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
1.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 56%Boys 44%
Its letter

No letter for Beaufront First School

A first or lower school: pupils move on before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, April 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Beaufront First School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in NE46 4, the school’s postcode sector

Acomb property prices →
£340,000
median sale, 94 sales in 36 months · Acomb £227,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K2010201520202025NE46 4Acomb
NE46 4Acomb

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£473K
Semi-detached
£243K
Terraced
£220K
NE46 4Acomb

Homes in NE46 4 sell for well over Acomb’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

1 state school
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBeaufront First School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

near Acomb, NE46 4LY

Beaufront First School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Beaufront First School?

For September 2026, 16 families put Beaufront First School first and 15 of them were offered a place; 15 places were offered in all.

What is Beaufront First School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Beaufront First School?

Homes in its postcode sector, NE46 4, sold for a median £340,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (94 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Acomb’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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