Bangabandhu Primary School

Bangabandhu Primary School is performing well overall, with notable strengths in behavior, personal development, and early years provision, which are rated as outstanding. The school has a broad and ambitious curriculum that caters to all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Having undergone its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership team demonstrates a commitment to high expectations and has effectively created a positive and respectful school culture. Pupils engage actively in various extracurricular activities, contributing meaningfully to the school community.

Strengths

• High expectations of academic achievement and behavior.
• Outstanding behavior and attitudes of pupils.
• Strong personal development curriculum.
• Effective safeguarding culture.
• Excellent subject knowledge among subject leaders.
• High-quality extracurricular activities for all pupils.
• Well-planned mathematics and early reading curriculums.

Areas for Improvement

• The curriculum for pupils with complex needs in the resourced provision is not securely embedded.
• Lack of clarity in what pupils with SEND should know and be able to do over time.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Bangabandhu Primary School attended 94.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.6% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Bangabandhu Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Bangabandhu Primary School had 14.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 7.8% of pupils at Bangabandhu Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 18.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 15 pupils.

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Bangabandhu Primary School received £13,067 and spent £13,002 for each of its 297 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £115,000 (-£389 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Bangabandhu Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Bangabandhu Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2023.

When was Bangabandhu Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Bangabandhu Primary School was last inspected in September 2023.

How many pupils does Bangabandhu Primary School have?

Bangabandhu Primary School has 309 pupils on roll.

What age range does Bangabandhu Primary School cover?

Bangabandhu Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Bangabandhu Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 77% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Bangabandhu Primary School?

Bangabandhu Primary School is at Wessex Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0LB.