Rated on Ofsted and the parent survey. Infant schools sit no SATs.
Infant schools stop at Year 2, so children here move to a junior school for Year 3.
This school
Downs Barn School
Junior school
Southwood School
Partner junior school
Year 3 to Year 6 · 470 m away from Downs Barn School
Both schools are in Boulevard Primary Partnership, so one governing body runs them.
View schoolYou apply for a Year 3 place through the council where you live by 15 January in Year 2, even for Southwood School. Check its admission arrangements for any priority it gives children from its partner infant school.
Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 13 February 2024
Infant schools do not sit SATs, and no Year 2 results are published for schools, so there are no exam results for Downs Barn School.
Children from here take SATs in Year 6 at Southwood School
69%
met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25, against 63% across England.
See Southwood School's resultsSchool workforce census, 2025/26.
Downs Barn School was graded Good at its last Ofsted inspection, on 13 February 2024.
Apply through the council where you live by 15 January for a Reception place starting that September. Children start Reception in the September after their fourth birthday. You can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference, and offers are sent on 16 April, or the next working day. A place in its nursery class does not carry on into Reception, so you still need to apply.
Downs Barn School is an infant school, so children move to a junior school for Year 3. Its partner junior school is Southwood School, 470 m away. The two schools are federated, with one governing body. You apply for a Year 3 place through the council where you live by 15 January in Year 2, even for Southwood School. Check its admission arrangements for any priority it gives children from its partner infant school.
No. Distance only counts when Downs Barn School has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by the local authority, Milton Keynes, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.