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Widcombe Infant School

Release date: 21 November 2025        IDSR news page        IDSR guidance

Important information

The IDSR summarises and analyses the data (statistical information) that is available about a school. It is designed to be used alongside our school inspection toolkit, to guide inspectors’ conversations with school leaders. It is not meant to provide a complete picture of a school or any judgement or assessment of a school.

The IDSR might contain sensitive information about schools and colleges. It is your responsibility to make sure you store and share the IDSR securely. Please see the IDSR conditions of use and storage statement in our guidance (linked at the top of the IDSR).

Data is presented in the IDSR based on the URN to which it is assigned. Where a school’s URN has changed within the timeframes represented in the IDSR, data will be displayed in different reports.


School details

URN: 143010         LAESTAB: 8002162        

Local authority: Bath and North East Somerset

Phase of education: Primary         Type of education: Academy Converter

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The trust

Data source: the Ofsted inspection outcome data and the DfE’s GIAS service

Guidance
This section provides the name of the multi-academy trust (MAT) that the school belongs to, the number of schools in that MAT, by phase, and the grade profile of the MAT. All-through schools are counted as secondary schools. Colleges are not counted. Schools inspected under the renewed education inspection framework (EIF) from November 2025 onwards will be graded in up to 9 evaluation areas. Schools inspected in the academic year 2024/25 did not receive an overall effectiveness grade.

The grade profile of the schools within the MAT uses the latest inspection outcome each school has received under its current URN, whether relating to a graded or ungraded inspection, and is split into 4 sections:
  • schools inspected from November 2025 onwards (this section will appear once the first reports of inspections carried out under the renewed EIF have been published)
  • schools last inspected in the 2024/25 academic year
  • schools last inspected prior to September 2024
  • schools not yet inspected

If a school was last inspected under a different URN before it joined the MAT, the school will be counted in the ‘Not yet received graded or ungraded inspection’ group until it is inspected as part of the MAT. However, if a school was last inspected before it joined the MAT but still possesses the same URN as it had on inspection, the outcome from that inspection will be counted in the grade profile of the MAT.

There is additional guidance about this section.

As of 1 November 2025:

  • this school is part of Palladian Academy Trust which contains 12 primary schools, 1 secondary school, no special schools, no alternative providers and no pupil referral units.
  • the latest inspection outcome for this school is: good graded (pre-September 2024).
  • the MAT grade profile was:

Schools inspected from November 2025 onwards

When the first judgements made under the renewed education inspection framework are published, the MAT grade profile will be displayed here.

Schools last inspected in the 2024/25 academic year

  • graded, not in a category of concern - 3
  • graded, serious weaknesses - 0
  • graded, special measures - 0
  • ungraded, improved significantly - 0
  • ungraded, standards maintained - 3
  • ungraded, some aspects not as strong - 0

Schools last inspected prior to September 2024

  • outstanding graded - 0
  • good graded - 2
  • requires improvement graded - 1
  • inadequate graded - 0
  • ungraded, school remains good - 2

Schools not yet inspected

  • not yet received graded or ungraded inspection - 2


Contents

Context of the school

School characteristics

Data source: the DfE’s January school census for 2025, 2024 and 2023

Guidance
The chart shows school-level and local area-level information for the last 3 years. For a school that has a sixth form, an additional row will show information relating to Years 12, 13 and, where applicable, 14.

For each measure, text and shading are used to show where the school sits within the national distribution of all schools, or to show the banding of the local area average within the national distribution of all schools. The local averages are based on the DfE spring census of pupils at schools in the same phase. Local area averages are not shown for the school number on roll, location deprivation or stability measures.

Local area is based on the middle-layer super output area (MSOA) in which the school resides. MSOAs comprise between 2,000 and 6,000 households and have a resident population of, generally, between 5,000 and 15,000 people. MSOAs fit within local authorities. The MSOA used in the IDSR for each school will be displayed at the top of this section. For more information about MSOAs, visit the Office for National Statistics website.

The possible National distribution bandings in this section are:
  • Well above average (blue shading)
  • Above average
  • Close to average
  • Below average
  • Well below average (orange shading)

The banding shows how the school or local average figure compares with the national figure. If the value is more than 0.5 standard deviations (SDs) above the national rate, it is classed as ‘Above average’. If it is more than 0.5 SDs below the national rate, it is classed as ‘Below average’. If it is more than one SD above the national rate, it is classed as ‘Well above average’ and highlighted in blue. If it is more than one SD below the national rate, it is classed as ‘Well below average’ and highlighted in orange. Otherwise, it is ‘Close to average’ and shown in grey.

Except for the school location deprivation measure, schools are compared with other schools in the same phase: primary (including middle deemed primary) or secondary (including middle deemed secondary, and all-through schools). Special schools are compared with the national distribution for secondary schools.

FSM6 in this chart refers to the percentage of pupils who are or have been eligible for free school meals and have claimed them during Reception to Year 11 sometime in the last 6 years.

Stability is a measure of the percentage of students who were admitted to the school at the standard time of admission. The stability percentage is calculated by dividing the number of pupils who meet the stability criteria by the number of all eligible pupils (pupils in Years 1 to 11 with a single or main dual registration at the school at the time of the January school census). The stability measure is not available for school sixth forms.

Information regarding the level of deprivation in the local area in which the school resides, together with an aggregated pupil-derived deprivation indicator is provided. Each deprivation indicator is based on the English indices of deprivation from 2019.

You can read further information about the data used for the local area deprivation. For deprivation measures, ‘Above average’ means “more deprived” and ‘Below average’ means “less deprived”.

There is additional guidance about this section.

School local area (MSOA) = Bath and North East Somerset 012

2023 2024 2025
School number on roll
Below average
181
Below average
177
Below average
178
School % FSM6
Well below average
7.18
Well below average
7.91
Below average
11.24
Local area % FSM6
Well below average
10.62
Well below average
9.29
Well below average
9.43
School % SEN support
Below average
7.73
Well below average
5.65
Well below average
6.18
Local area % SEN support
Well below average
7.62
Well below average
7.72
Below average
10.03
School % EHC plan
Below average
1.10
Below average
1.13
Close to average
2.25
Local area % EHC plan
Close to average
1.47
Below average
1.54
Below average
1.57
School % EAL
Close to average
15.50
Close to average
21.50
Close to average
21.90
Local area % EAL
Close to average
17.60
Close to average
17.60
Close to average
20.10
School % CIN
Below average
1.10
Below average
1.13
Well below average
0.00
Local area % CIN
Well below average
0.88
Below average
1.23
Below average
1.25
School % stability
Well above average
93.33
Well above average
95.83
Well above average
95.87
School pupil base deprivation
Well below average
Well below average
Well below average
Local area pupil base deprivation
Well below average
Well below average
Well below average
School location deprivation
Below average
Below average
Below average

Ethnicity

Data source: the DfE’s January school census for 2025

Guidance

The chart displays the ethnic groups within the whole school. There are 17 possible ethnic groups. In addition, ‘Any other ethnic group’ is displayed.

The whole school measure includes all year groups in the school.

If the school has a sixth form, a separate ethnicity chart will be displayed.

There is additional guidance about this section.

Whole school

Ethnicity bar chart

Table
Ethnicity group Ethnicity School % School national %
Asian or Asian British Bangladeshi 0.0 1.8
Asian or Asian British Chinese 2.2 0.8
Asian or Asian British Indian 0.6 4.2
Asian or Asian British Pakistani 0.0 4.6
Asian or Asian British Any other Asian background 3.4 2.3
Black or Black British African 0.6 5.2
Black or Black British Caribbean 0.0 0.9
Black or Black British Any other Black background 0.0 0.8
Mixed White and Asian 3.4 1.7
Mixed White and Black African 0.0 1.0
Mixed White and Black Caribbean 0.6 1.6
Mixed Any other Mixed background 3.9 2.9
White British 62.4 60.4
White Gypsy/Roma 0.6 0.3
White Irish 0.6 0.2
White Traveller of Irish heritage 0.0 0.1
White Any other White background 14.0 7.1
Any other ethnic group Any other ethnic group 7.9 2.5

SEN

Data source: the DfE’s January school census for 2025 and the DfE’s GIAS service

Guidance

The table displays the number of pupils in the school, by year group, who have special educational needs (SEN) and the primary need category. The 2 halves of the table represent pupils who have SEN support and pupils who have an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

No highlighting is applied to this table; figures are presented purely for information.

The text above the table displays if the school has any resourced provision. This could be a SEN unit, resourced provision or both. The capacity represents how many pupils the provision displayed can accommodate. The type of SEN provision lists, where applicable, the type of SEN that is provided for. This section also displays how many pupils with SEN have received free school meals at any time during the last 6 years and/or who are looked-after children (in the care of the local authority for a day or more or who have been adopted from care).

There is additional guidance about this section.

Type of resourced provision: No resourced provision
Capacity:
Type of SEN provision:
Number of pupils with SEN who are also FSM6 and/or CLA: 7

SEN primary need
SEN support (11)
R Y1 Y2 Total
Moderate Learning Difficulty 0 2 2 4
Social, Emotional and Mental Health 0 1 2 3
Speech, Language and Communication Needs 1 1 0 2
Other Difficulty/Disability 1 1 0 2
Year group totals 2 5 4 11


SEN primary need
EHC plan (4)
R Y1 Y2 Total
Speech, Language and Communication Needs 0 3 0 3
Other Difficulty/Disability 1 0 0 1
Year group totals 1 3 0 4


Year group

Data source: the DfE’s January school census for 2025

Guidance
This table shows information about pupil characteristics for each year group.

The table presents data for pupils who were recorded as part of the previous January school census. As such, the data presented against each year group is about the cohort that was in that year group in the last academic year. For example, the data in the Year 7 column is about the cohort who were in Year 7 in the previous academic year, not the cohort who are in Year 7 in the current academic year.

The measures included in the table are:
  • the number of pupils on roll
  • the percentage of pupils in receipt of free school meals (FSM) at the time of the census; these pupils are those who are or have been eligible for FSM and have claimed them, during Reception to Year 11, sometime in the last 6 years (FSM data is not collected for sixth forms)
  • the percentage of pupils whose first language is not English or is believed to be other than English
  • the number of pupils identified as young carers
  • the number of pupils who are children in need, including children on child protection plans and looked-after children – this includes children who have child-in-need plans and other types of plans or arrangements, and children waiting for a referral to be considered, an assessment to start, or an assessment that has started to be completed; these are pupils who were a child in need at any point during the reporting year (1 April to 31 March inclusive)
  • the number of looked-after children – these are pupils who are looked after for at least one day during the year and are aged 4 to 15 at 31 August; this excludes looked-after children under an agreed series of short placements and those who were on remand/committed for trial or sentence and accommodated by the local authority

No highlighting is applied to this table; figures are presented for information only.

There is additional guidance about this section.

Number on roll % FSM6 % EAL Number young carers Number CIN Number CLA
Reception 57 15.79 14.00 0 0 No data
Year 1 60 13.33 28.30 0 0 No data
Year 2 61 4.92 23.00 0 0 No data


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Staffing

Data source: the DfE’s November 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 school workforce census data

Guidance
This section presents information on several areas relating to staffing.

The areas covered are:
  • the proportion of education support staff relative to teaching staff
  • teacher absence
  • staff retention

Information on staff turnover is calculated using the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) turnover leavers and the total FTE staff at the school. A school is considered to have high staff turnover if its turnover rate was in the highest 20% in any of the previous 3 years. Low staff turnover is not highlighted. Special schools are compared with primaries.

Turnover and leavers at a school level can be very volatile from year to year. When looking at rates of leavers and turnover, it is important to consider school size, because this has a particularly big impact on turnover rates for small schools.

There is additional guidance about this section.

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Attendance and behaviour

Attendance and persistent absence

Data source: the DfE’s 2024/25 (1 term), 2023/24 (3 term), 2022/23 (3 term) and 2018/19 (3 term) academic year data

Guidance
This section contains tables and charts for overall attendance and persistent absence, which provide data for the school and a comparison with the national average. To compare the school value with the national average, we have calculated standard deviations (SDs) and confidence intervals (CIs). CIs are used for persistent absence only.

Each set of tables and charts is available for 3 different pupil groups:
  • all pupils enrolled at the school
  • free school meals (FSM) pupils: those who have been eligible for FSM at any time during the last 6 years – referred to as FSM6
  • pupils who have a statement of special educational needs (SEN) or an education, health and care (EHC) plan, or who receive SEN support but do not have an EHC plan

This section includes data for 2018/19 because, nationally, attendance declined sharply in 2020/21 during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not recovered. Inclusion of 2018/19 data will show whether the school has managed to return to pre-pandemic attendance levels.

Overall attendance is calculated as: 100 – ((number of absence sessions / number of sessions it was possible to attend) * 100). Absence is the total of all authorised and unauthorised absences.

Schools are compared with other schools in the same phase of education: primary (including middle deemed primary) or secondary (including middle deemed secondary and all-through schools). Special schools are compared against the national distribution for secondary schools.

The national distribution banding shows how the school’s rate compares with the national rate. For overall attendance, if the school’s rate is more than 0.5 SDs above the national rate, it is classed as ‘Above’ and highlighted in green. If the school’s rate is more than 0.5 SDs below the national rate, it is classed as ‘Below’ and highlighted in red. Otherwise it is ‘Close to average’ and shown in grey. Due to the methodology used to calculate overall attendance, this banding does not indicate statistical significance. For persistent absence it is calculated differently, as it uses both the SD and a CI to indicate whether the school’s persistent absence rate is, statistically, significantly above or below the national average. School values that are more than 0.5 SDs above the national rate and significantly above average – Above (sig+) – are highlighted red. School values that are more than 0.5 SDs below the national rate and significantly below average – Below (sig-) – are highlighted green. All other values are shown in grey.

Overall attendance trend shows whether the school trend is in line with the national trend, or if the school’s attendance has improved or declined relative to the national change. Persistent absence trend indicates whether there has been a statistically significant increase or decrease in the school’s persistent absence rate in a particular year, compared with the previous year. The year 3 rate is compared with 2018/19 to illustrate how persistent absence has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The school context column indicates whether the whole school has a higher-than-average proportion of students who have been eligible for FSM at any time during the last 6 years (FSM6), or a higher-than-average proportion of pupils who receive SEN support, or who have a statement of SEN or an EHC plan.

There is additional guidance about this section.

Key to charts

Attendance

The trend analysis for the Attendance measure is different to the trend analysis elsewhere in the IDSR. For Attendance, our trend analysis compares the school trend with the national trend and determines whether it is in line with it or whether the school trend is showing either relative improvement or relative decline.

All pupils - Attendance

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Sch trend vs Nat trend School context
2024/25 124 95.8% 94.9% Above Relative decline -
2023/24 122 96.7% 94.5% Above Relative decline -
2022/23 123 96.5% 94.1% Above Relative improvement -







2018/19 125 97.2% 96.0% Above Not available -
Chart

Attendance Attendance all

FSM6 - Attendance

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Sch trend vs Nat trend School context
2024/25 12 88.0% 92.6% Below Relative decline -
2023/24 9 93.5% 92.0% Above Relative decline -
2022/23 11 93.2% 91.6% Above Relative improvement -







2018/19 11 94.3% 94.4% Close to average Not available -
Chart

Attendance Attendance FSM

SEN - Attendance

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Sch trend vs Nat trend School context
2024/25 14 92.1% 92.5% Close to average Relative decline -
2023/24 10 95.8% 92.1% Above Relative improvement -
2022/23 13 94.1% 91.9% Above Relative improvement -







2018/19 9 96.4% 94.4% Above Not available -
Chart

Attendance Attendance SEN

Persistent absence

All pupils - Persistent absence

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2024/25 124 10.5% 14.3% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2023/24 122 3.3% 14.6% Below (sig-) No sig change -
2022/23 123 4.9% 16.2% Below (sig-) No sig change -







2018/19 125 1.6% 8.2% Below (sig-) Not available -
Chart

Attendance Persistent absence all

FSM6 - Persistent absence

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2024/25 12 50.0% 24.4% Above (sig+) No sig change -
2023/24 9 11.1% 27.1% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 11 18.2% 29.3% Below (non-sig) No sig change -







2018/19 11 9.1% 16.1% Below (non-sig) Not available -
Chart

Attendance Persistent absence FSM

SEN - Persistent absence

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2024/25 14 28.6% 22.6% Above (non-sig) No sig change -
2023/24 10 0.0% 24.2% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 13 7.7% 25.7% Below (non-sig) No sig change -







2018/19 9 0.0% 14.8% Below (non-sig) Not available -
Chart

Attendance Persistent absence SEN


Suspensions and permanent exclusions - whole school

Data source: the DfE’s 2023/24, 2022/23 and 2021/22 academic year data

Guidance
This section contains tables and charts for suspensions and permanent exclusions. These provide data for the school and a comparison with the national average.

The number and proportion of pupils who have had suspensions or permanent exclusions in a school are often very small, especially in primary schools. These figures should be interpreted with caution, particularly when making comparisons over time. The suspensions and permanent exclusions data is one year behind and therefore may not relate to the same cohort as other IDSR data.

The whole school measure includes all year groups in the school.

This section contains tables and charts displaying information about pupils who have had one or more suspensions and pupils who have had two or more suspensions, for the most recent 3 years for which data is available.

Each set of tables and charts is available for 3 different pupil groups:
  • all pupils enrolled at the school
  • free school meals (FSM) pupils: those who have been eligible for FSM at any time during the last 6 years – referred to as FSM6
  • pupils who have a statement of special educational needs (SEN) or an education, health and care (EHC) plan, or who receive SEN support but do not have an EHC plan

To compare the school’s data with the national average, we have calculated standard deviations (SDs) and confidence intervals (CIs).

Schools are compared with other schools in the same phase of education: primary (including middle deemed primary) or secondary (including middle deemed secondary and all-through schools). Special schools are compared against the national distribution for secondary schools.

The national distribution banding shows how the school’s rate compares with the national rate. This comparison uses both the SD and a CI to indicate whether the school’s suspension rate is, statistically, significantly above or below the national average. School values that are more than 0.5 SDs above the national rate and significantly above average – Above (sig+) – are highlighted red. School values that are more than 0.5 SDs below the national rate and significantly below average – Below (sig-) – are highlighted green. All other values are shown in grey.

Trend indicates whether there has been a statistically significant increase or decrease in the school’s suspension rate in a particular year, compared with the previous year.

The school context column indicates whether the whole school has a higher-than-average proportion of students who have been eligible for FSM at any time during the last 6 years (FSM6), or a higher-than-average proportion of pupils who receive SEN support, or who have a statement of SEN or an EHC plan.

Suspension rate data is positively skewed, especially for primary schools, because many schools have a very low suspension rate. However, a small number of schools have a higher rate, so there is a long above-the-national-average section, but only approximately a quarter of schools fall into this band. Some of these high rates may be due to errors in the source data.

Reasons for suspensions and permanent exclusions are for the most recent year and they will only be displayed if there has been at least 1 suspension or permanent exclusion in the most recent year. Up to 3 reasons can be recorded. These reasons are recorded without weighting or prioritisation. Therefore, the total number of reasons may exceed the total number of suspensions or permanent exclusions.

There is additional guidance about this section.

Key to charts

1+ suspensions

All pupils - 1 or more suspensions

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2023/24 177 0.00% 0.99% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 181 0.00% 0.82% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2021/22 180 0.00% 0.68% Below (non-sig) Not available -
Chart

Susps&Excls Pupils with 1 or more suspensions all

FSM6 - 1 or more suspensions

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2023/24 14 0.00% 2.33% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 13 0.00% 1.94% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2021/22 10 0.00% 1.63% Below (non-sig) Not available -
Chart

Susps&Excls Pupils with 1 or more suspensions FSM

SEN - 1 or more suspensions

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2023/24 12 0.00% 4.44% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 16 0.00% 3.85% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2021/22 17 0.00% 3.28% Below (non-sig) Not available -
Chart

Susps&Excls Pupils with 1 or more suspensions SEN

2+ suspensions

All pupils - 2 or more suspensions

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2023/24 177 0.00% 0.47% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 181 0.00% 0.38% Close to average (non-sig) No sig change -
2021/22 180 0.00% 0.30% Close to average (non-sig) Not available -

The distributions for 2021/22 and 2022/23 are missing the ‘below’ band due to the positive skew of the distributions.

Chart

Susps&Excls Pupils with 2 or more suspensions all

FSM6 - 2 or more suspensions

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2023/24 14 0.00% 1.16% Close to average (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 13 0.00% 0.94% Close to average (non-sig) No sig change -
2021/22 10 0.00% 0.76% Close to average (non-sig) Not available -
Chart

Susps&Excls Pupils with 2 or more suspensions FSM

SEN - 2 or more suspensions

Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend School context
2023/24 12 0.00% 2.37% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2022/23 16 0.00% 2.01% Below (non-sig) No sig change -
2021/22 17 0.00% 1.66% Close to average (non-sig) Not available -

The distribution for 2021/22 is missing the ‘below’ band due to the positive skew of the distribution.

Chart

Susps&Excls Pupils with 2 or more suspensions SEN

Suspension reasons

2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Total number of suspensions 0 0 0

Reasons for suspensions in latest year

There were no suspensions in the latest year.

Permanent exclusion reasons

2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Total number of permanent exclusions 0 0 0
National average permanent exclusions 0 0 0

Reasons for permanent exclusions in latest year

There were no permanent exclusions in the latest year.


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Data source: the DfE’s summer term 2025 alternative provision placements data

Guidance

The table shows information about alternative provision placements. This section will appear for all schools that submitted information on alternative provision placements in the latest data.

The placements include alternative provision, companies, providers registered with the UK Register of Learning Providers, further education and other schools.

The total number of pupils is shown, as well as the number of pupils attending full time and part time. Numbers in brackets are additional pupils who were attending the alternative provision but left during the census period.

There is additional guidance about this section.

There is no data in this section for this school or it was incomplete.


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Achievement in phonics

Phonics screening check expected standard

Data source: the DfE’s provisional 2025, final 2024 and final 2023 data

Guidance
This section contains a table and chart for the Year 1 phonics attainment measure, and sentences for both Year 1 and Year 2 phonics, which provide data for the school and a comparison with the national average. To compare the school value with the national average, we have calculated standard deviations (SDs) and confidence intervals.

Data is presented for the most recent 3 years and is provided for all pupils only.

We have averaged school and national results across data years to produce a 3-year average. This helps us smooth out year-to-year fluctuations in the data so we can spot genuine trends and significant patterns that might otherwise be hidden. This is particularly important in small schools, where a single pupil’s outcome can disproportionately affect the data.

A school’s position on the national distribution is determined using SDs. ‘Above’ indicates when a school’s value is more than 0.5 SDs above the national value. ‘Below’ indicates when a school’s value is more than 0.5 SDs below the national value. All other school values are ‘Close to average’.

Combining the school value’s position within the national distribution and a measure of statistical confidence in the school value, there are 7 possible interpretations of school performance (the national distribution banding). These are:
  • Above (sig+)
  • Above (non-sig)
  • Close to average (sig+)
  • Close to average (non-sig)
  • Close to average (sig-)
  • Below (non-sig)
  • Below (sig-)
When school values fall into the ‘Close to average’ banding, or they are not, statistically, significantly different from national (non-sig), the national distribution banding will be coloured grey. When school values fall into the ‘Above’ banding and are, statistically, significantly above the national value, it will be highlighted in green. When school values fall into the ‘Below’ banding and are, statistically, significantly below the national value, it will be highlighted in red.

Trend shows whether there has been a statistically significant increase or decrease in the school’s value in a particular year, compared with the previous year. Trends are not available for the furthest year, as no comparator year is displayed.

The year group context column indicates whether the relevant year group has a high proportion of pupils who are or have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) and have claimed them at some time in the last 6 years (FSM6), or have high special educational needs (SEN) or low stability. The phonics measure uses Year 1 cohort characteristics.

The sentences show:
  • the total number of pupils who were eligible to be screened for phonics
  • the number of pupils who sat the check, and who did not, where applicable
  • the number of pupils who did not meet the expected standard, where applicable
  • the average mark for pupils who did not meet the expected standard (where the number not meeting the standard was greater than 5)

The number of pupils who did not sit the phonics screening check includes (where applicable): the number who were absent, the number who were disapplied, and the number for whom there was maladministration.

There is additional guidance about this section.

Key to charts

All pupils - Phonics expected standard

  • There were 59 pupils who were eligible for the phonics screening check in Year 1 in 2025; all of them sat the check and 10 pupils did not meet the phonics expected standard. The average mark for those not meeting the standard was 23.
  • There were 4 pupils who were eligible for the phonics screening check in Year 2 in 2025; all of them sat the check.
Year Cohort School National National distribution banding Trend Year group context
3-year 180 92% 80% Above (sig+) Not applicable Not applicable
2025 59 83% 80% Close to average (non-sig) No sig change -
2024 61 97% 80% Above (sig+) No sig change -
2023 60 97% 79% Above (sig+) Not available -
Chart

Achievement in phonics


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Report card

Guidance

The section contains a subset of data from the IDSR that will eventually be published alongside the inspection report. For guidance about the data please see the associated IDSR section above.

The letter ‘R’ will be presented where data has been redacted due to it not being published. The letter ‘S’ will be presented where the data is suppressed for small cohorts of 5 or fewer.

There is additional guidance about this section.

Context in latest year

Total pupils

178 Below average

School capacity

180 Below average

Pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time during the past six years

11.24% Below average

Pupils with an education, health and care (EHC) plan

2.25% Close to average

Pupils with special educational needs (SEN) support

6.18% Well below average

School location deprivation

Below average

Absence

Overall absence

Year This school National average Compared with national average
2024/25 4.2% 5.1% Below
2023/24 3.3% 5.5% Below
2022/23 3.5% 5.9% Below
2018/19 2.8% 4.0% Below

Persistent absence

Year This school National average Compared with national average
2024/25 10.5% 14.3% Below
2023/24 3.3% 14.6% Below
2022/23 4.9% 16.2% Below
2018/19 1.6% 8.2% Below


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