Earlsdon Primary School

Earlsdon Primary School is a happy, orderly and ambitious maintained primary where pupils feel safe, behave well and have positive attitudes to learning. Inspectors judged the school to be good across the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. Pupils achieve well, particularly in reading and mathematics, and benefit from a broad curriculum, strong early reading, and an extensive personal development programme including pupil leadership, clubs, residential visits and international trips.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, polite and feel safe, with positive attitudes and good behaviour.
• Warm, trusting relationships with staff support positive behaviour from the early years.
• An ambitious curriculum reflects high expectations and helps pupils achieve well, especially in reading and mathematics.
• Early reading and phonics are taught well, with regular checks and support for pupils who struggle.
• Pupils with SEND are identified early and often receive bespoke support and external specialist advice.
• Personal development is extensive, including pupil leadership roles, community involvement and a wide range of clubs.
• Residential and international visits build resilience, outdoor learning and intercultural understanding.
• Governors have a detailed understanding of their roles and provide effective support and challenge.
• Staff feel valued and the school is mindful of workload and well-being.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Teachers do not routinely check what pupils know and can do in the early years and foundation subjects, so gaps are not always identified or used to inform teaching.
• Individual learning plans for some pupils with SEND do not set out precise areas of difficulty or specific strategies, so some pupils do not master key basic skills.
• Persistent absence is too high, especially among disadvantaged pupils, and this affects their achievement.

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 Earlsdon Primary School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.4% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Earlsdon 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 Earlsdon Primary School had 23.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 17.4% 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, 13.9% of pupils at Earlsdon Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% 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 Earlsdon Primary School received £7,326 and spent £6,881 for each of its 416 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £526,000 (£1,265 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 Earlsdon Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Earlsdon Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Earlsdon Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Earlsdon Primary School have?

Earlsdon Primary School has 416 pupils on roll.

What age range does Earlsdon Primary School cover?

Earlsdon Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Earlsdon Primary School?

Earlsdon Primary School is at Earlsdon Avenue North, Coventry, West Midlands, CV5 6FZ.