Salusbury Primary School

Salusbury Primary School is a nurturing, community-focused primary where pupils feel safe and achieve well. Inspectors found behaviour and personal development to be particular strengths: pupils are calm, respectful and kind, and the school provides a wide range of enrichment, leadership and character-building opportunities. Pupils with SEND are identified early and supported very effectively, reading is a high priority, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. Leadership and governance are strong, staff receive high-quality professional development, and parents are overwhelmingly positive. The curriculum is ambitious and logically sequenced, and pupils generally achieve well. However, in early years and in a small number of foundation subjects, the curriculum is not yet fully embedding the key knowledge and skills pupils need to remember, so pupils sometimes struggle to connect prior learning to new concepts and develop deeper understanding over time. Leaders already recognise this and are taking action. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a community primary school, and under the current inspection framework it received judgements for each area rather than an overall effectiveness grade.

Strengths

• Nurturing, caring and inclusive community ethos
• Pupils feel safe and are welcoming and polite
• High expectations and strong achievement for all pupils, including those with SEND
• Exemplary pupil behaviour and a calm, respectful atmosphere
• Strong support for pupils with SEND, with early identification and precise plans
• Consistently applied reading and phonics approach that builds fluency and comprehension
• Ambitious, logically sequenced curriculum with strong foundations in subjects such as mathematics, computing and music
• Wide enrichment, visits, workshops and themed weeks that broaden pupils’ experiences
• Thoughtful character-building and pupil leadership opportunities, including peer mediators and reading ambassadors
• Effective PSHE and assemblies that develop empathy and understanding of British values
• Leaders and governors have an accurate understanding of the school and review improvements carefully
• High-quality professional development and strong attention to staff workload and well-being
• Overwhelmingly positive parental views
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum in early years and a few foundation subjects does not yet fully embed key knowledge and skills
• Pupils sometimes struggle to connect prior learning to new concepts, limiting deeper understanding 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 Salusbury Primary School attended 94.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.0% 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, 2.5% of pupils at Salusbury 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 Salusbury Primary School had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 16.6% of pupils at Salusbury Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

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 Salusbury Primary School received £7,993 and spent £8,361 for each of its 623 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £82,000 (-£131 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 Salusbury Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Salusbury Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2025.

When was Salusbury Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Salusbury Primary School was last inspected in January 2025.

How many pupils does Salusbury Primary School have?

Salusbury Primary School has 626 pupils on roll.

What age range does Salusbury Primary School cover?

Salusbury Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Salusbury Primary School?

Salusbury Primary School is at Salusbury Road, Kilburn, London, NW6 6RG.