Eaves Primary School

Eaves Primary School continues to perform well, maintaining its status as a good school. Pupils take pride in their community, benefiting from a supportive learning environment where they are encouraged to achieve their best. The leadership team, along with dedicated staff, promotes high-quality pastoral care, ensuring that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), feel safe and valued. The school's ambitious and well-structured curriculum contributes to the students' overall success, building on their existing knowledge and fostering a love for learning, especially in reading. Despite the overall positive findings, some challenges persist, particularly regarding pupils' ability to recall and apply previously learned knowledge. A few students struggle to deepen their understanding across subjects due to insufficient opportunities to revisit earlier content. Nevertheless, the school is proactive in its efforts to enhance both student performance and personal development, with strong community support and a well-informed governing body overseeing its strategic direction.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and valued in a welcoming environment.
• Strong leadership promotes high expectations and aspirations for all students.
• Effective pastoral care supports individual pupil needs.
• Ambitious and well-structured curriculum helps students achieve well.
• High-quality reading program fosters a love of literature.
• Pupils with SEND are well supported and fully engaged in lessons.
• Strong behavior management results in low disruption during learning.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils struggle to recall key subject-specific content from previous years.
• Opportunities for revisiting and recapping learning could be improved.

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 Eaves Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.0% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Eaves 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 Eaves Primary School had 25.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.0% 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, 13.7% of pupils at Eaves Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.9% 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 Eaves Primary School received £7,296 and spent £7,107 for each of its 229 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £153,000 (£669 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 Eaves Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Eaves Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Eaves Primary School was last inspected in April 2023.

How many pupils does Eaves Primary School have?

Eaves Primary School has 233 pupils on roll.

What age range does Eaves Primary School cover?

Eaves Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Eaves Primary School?

Eaves Primary School is at Eaves Lane, Marshalls Cross, Eaves Primary School, Eaves Lane, St Helens, Wa9 3ub, St Helens, Merseyside, WA9 3UB.