Beech Hill Community Primary School

Beech Hill Community Primary is a nurturing, happy school where pupils feel safe, behave very well and attend regularly. Attendance and personal development/wellbeing are standout strengths: leaders monitor attendance closely, support families, and provide strong pastoral care and enrichment. Safeguarding standards are met. Pupils achieve broadly in line with expectations and are generally well prepared for secondary school, with reading a particular strength. The curriculum is broad and well sequenced, early reading is taught effectively, and pupils with SEND are well supported, including in the newly opened specially resourced provision for autistic pupils. However, teaching quality is not yet consistent across all subjects, and some lessons do not build on pupils' knowledge as well as they could. Leaders and governors understand the school and are committed to improvement, with strong community partnerships and positive parent views. The main areas for development are sharper monitoring of the impact of strategies for vulnerable pupils and more consistent teaching, while governors' challenge should be consistently robust. The school serves a disadvantaged community with high levels of free school meals and SEN support.

Strengths

• Attendance has improved rapidly, including for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND.
• Pupils behave excellently; classrooms are calm and disruption is rare.
• Personal development is comprehensive, with strong relationships, health and safety education.
• Pastoral care and wellbeing support are highly effective and trusted by families.
• An extensive enrichment programme gives pupils access to arts, music, engineering and clubs.
• Early reading is taught effectively through a well-followed phonics programme.
• The curriculum is broad, well sequenced and draws on external expertise.
• Pupils with SEND are well supported and access the full curriculum.
• Early years staff care skilfully and help children settle quickly.
• Inclusion is a priority, with prompt identification of barriers to learning.
• Leaders build strong community and parental partnerships.
• Governors know the school and fulfil statutory duties, including safeguarding.
• Staff value professional development and support for workload and wellbeing.
• Pupils are proud of their school, feel safe and are confident and responsible.

Areas for Improvement

• Teaching strategies are not yet applied consistently across the school, so some subjects are not taught as well as others.
• Leaders do not review the impact of some strategies for vulnerable pupils with enough precision.
• Governors' challenge on the impact of leaders' strategies is not consistently robust.
• Staff need continued support to embed teaching strategies so all pupils, including in early years, are consistently well prepared.
• Attainment is typically close to average, with some areas below average and leaders acting to improve.

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 Beech Hill Community Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.6% 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 Beech Hill Community 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 Beech Hill Community Primary School had 24.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.2% 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, 31.6% of pupils at Beech Hill Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.3% 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 Beech Hill Community Primary School received £8,146 and spent £8,124 for each of its 274 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £301,000 (£1,100 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 Beech Hill Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beech Hill Community Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Beech Hill Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beech Hill Community Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Beech Hill Community Primary School have?

Beech Hill Community Primary School has 282 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beech Hill Community Primary School cover?

Beech Hill Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Beech Hill Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Beech Hill Community Primary School?

Beech Hill Community Primary School is at Netherby Road, Beech Hill, Wigan, Lancashire, WN6 7PT.