Roberts Primary School

Roberts Primary School demonstrates strong performance across various standards, with effective leadership driving improvements in teaching and learning. Safeguarding measures are robust, ensuring a safe environment for all students. High levels of support are offered to pupils with special educational needs, and parents, staff, and students have shown widespread support for leadership's initiatives. Despite strong community engagement and a positive atmosphere, attendance remains a priority for improvement as some pupils do not attend regularly. Overall, pupils are well prepared for their transition to secondary education.

Strengths

• Strong leadership has significantly improved standards.
• Community support for leadership and school initiatives is high.
• Pupils generally achieve well and make secure progress.
• Robust safeguarding measures are in place.
• Pupils' behaviour is consistently good.
• The curriculum is broad and supports secure progress.
• Effective early years provision prepares children well for key stage 1.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils do not attend school as regularly as they should.
• Curriculum in a few subjects does not prioritise the most important knowledge.

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 Roberts Primary School attended 93.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.8% 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, 0.6% of pupils at Roberts 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 Roberts Primary School had 22.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.1% 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, 14.9% of pupils at Roberts Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.2% 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 Roberts Primary School received £6,900 and spent £7,270 for each of its 610 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £990,000 (£1,625 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 Roberts Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Roberts Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Roberts Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Roberts Primary School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Roberts Primary School have?

Roberts Primary School has 626 pupils on roll.

What age range does Roberts Primary School cover?

Roberts Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Roberts Primary School?

Roberts Primary School is at Roberts Primary School, Robert Street, Lower Gornal, Dudley, West Midlands, DY3 2AZ.