Hallfield Primary School

Hallfield Primary School is performing well overall, continuing to maintain its status as a good school. The leadership fosters a nurturing and inclusive environment, ensuring that staff are highly attentive to the well-being and safety of the pupils. The school excels in making new students feel welcome and included regardless of when they join. A significant focus on kindness and respect among students, enhanced by projects exploring cultural differences, strengthens the community spirit within the school. The curriculum offered at Hallfield is ambitious and varied, covering a wide range of subjects and encouraging the development of essential knowledge over time. However, there are areas for improvement, particularly concerning the recent implementation of a new phonics program and the need for clearer identification of key knowledge in certain subjects. Overall, Hallfield Primary School demonstrates solid practices and initiatives aimed at supporting all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities.

Strengths

• Nurturing and inclusive environment.
• Strong focus on pupil well-being and safety.
• Wide range of subjects taught from Year 1 to Year 6.
• Effective use of assessment to identify knowledge gaps.
• Successful adaptation of learning for pupils with SEND.
• Frequent opportunities for pupils to practice reading and writing.
• Variety of educational outings and extracurricular clubs.

Areas for Improvement

• Staff still acclimating to the new phonics program.
• Lack of precise identification of essential subject knowledge in some areas.

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 Hallfield Primary School attended 93.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.0% 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, 0.8% of pupils at Hallfield 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 Hallfield Primary School had 16.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 33.3% 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, 30.5% of pupils at Hallfield Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 13.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 25 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 Hallfield Primary School received £14,334 and spent £14,673 for each of its 222 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £85,000 (£385 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 Hallfield Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Hallfield Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Hallfield Primary School was last inspected in September 2023.

How many pupils does Hallfield Primary School have?

Hallfield Primary School has 223 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hallfield Primary School cover?

Hallfield Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 50% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Hallfield Primary School?

Hallfield Primary School is at Hallfield Estate, London, W2 6JJ.