Holbrook Primary School

Holbrook Primary School is a welcoming, inclusive school that is performing well overall, with good judgements across the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school has a strong pastoral and community ethos, pupils behave well, and a broad curriculum is enriched by trips, clubs and pupil leadership roles. Safeguarding arrangements are effective. New leadership since June 2024 has brought swift and decisive improvement, particularly in strengthening curriculum planning and delivery where published 2024 outcomes were below national averages. Reading is taught well from the early years, pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are identified quickly and supported effectively, and attendance is improving through close work with families. The report notes that current provision is stronger than the published outcomes suggest. The main area for improvement is writing across the curriculum. Some pupils do not have enough high-quality opportunities to practise and extend their writing in subjects beyond English, and written work in books is not always of a high standard. This was the first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and inspectors took the pandemic’s impact into account.

Strengths

• Welcoming, inclusive school at the heart of its diverse community
• Broad curriculum supported by a wide range of enrichment opportunities
• Strong pastoral support helps pupils feel safe, valued and able to behave well
• Effective early reading provision with prompt support for pupils at risk of falling behind
• Accurate identification and effective support for pupils with SEND
• Pupils develop character, resilience and understanding of modern Britain through trips and leadership roles
• Clear leadership vision and effective consultation with staff
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective
• Attendance and punctuality are improving through close work with parents and carers

Areas for Improvement

• Too few high-quality opportunities for pupils to develop writing across the curriculum
• Some pupils do not produce writing that reflects or extends their writing ability well enough
• Writing activities in some subjects do not consistently help pupils demonstrate depth of subject knowledge
• Published outcomes in 2024 were below the national average in some subjects, although current provision is stronger
• Historically, some pupils did not attend school as regularly as they should, though attendance is improving

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 Holbrook 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, 1.0% of pupils at Holbrook 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 Holbrook Primary School had 22.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.8% 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, 15.1% of pupils at Holbrook 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 Holbrook Primary School received £7,649 and spent £7,630 for each of its 590 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £521,000 (£883 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 Holbrook Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Holbrook Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Holbrook Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Holbrook Primary School have?

Holbrook Primary School has 608 pupils on roll.

What age range does Holbrook Primary School cover?

Holbrook Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 41% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Holbrook Primary School?

Holbrook Primary School is at Gateside Road, Coventry, West Midlands, CV6 6FR.