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Badsley Primary School

Primary Ages 4-11 548 pupils Rotherham
Ofsted: Requires Improvement
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Badsley Primary School is a community school in Rotherham for pupils aged 4 to 11. It has 548 pupils on roll. The latest Ofsted rating for Badsley Primary School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in May 2025. In 2025, 39% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Ofsted inspection: May 2025. KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Community school
Age Range 4-11
Religion Does not apply
Address Badsley Moor Lane
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S65 2QS
Phone 01709828665
Reference Number 106833

General Makeup

Number of pupils 548
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 49.09%
Girls: 50.91%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 58.4%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 29%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 24.9
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 23.8
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 26.8

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 33 38 71
2 40 28 68
3 38 39 77
4 49 33 82
5 37 48 85
6 35 47 82

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 57.1%
Pakistani 17.2%
White, Other 6.8%
Asian, Other 3.3%
African 2.9%
Mixed, Other 2.2%
White & Asian 2%
Indian 0.9%
White & Black (African) 0.9%
White & Black (Caribbean) 0.5%
Chinese 0.2%

Overall Ofsted Rating Requires Improvement
 >  Quality of education Requires Improvement
  >  Behaviour & Attitude Good
  >  Personal Development Good
  >  Leadership & Management Good
  >  Early Years Provision Good
Last Report Date 28 Jan 2025
Date Report
28 Jan 2025 School inspection
26 Sep 2019 School inspection:
19 Jun 2018 Monitoring visit
09 May 2017 Full inspection:
19 Oct 2015 Monitoring visit
29 Apr 2015 Full inspection:
13 Jun 2013 Full inspection:
09 Jan 2012 Interim assessment
24 Mar 2009 Full inspection:
03 May 2006 Full inspection:
18 Oct 1999 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 39%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 1%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 101
Maths 101

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading -5
Writing -4.5
Maths -4

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Average Scaled Score

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 21 1
Third Preference 7 0
From another Local Authority 0 0

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Badsley Primary School had 544 pupils for 630 places. 86 places (13.7%) were unfilled.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “South & East Primary” planning area

Rotherham counted 447 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 455 in 2029–30, up 2%.

201020112012201320142015201620172018201920212022202320242025
Places 270270262270630630630630630630630630630630630
Pupils 229232260268524531552554578590576568561577544
Unfilled 15.2%14.1%0.8%0.7%16.8%15.7%12.4%12.1%8.3%6.3%8.6%9.8%11.0%8.4%13.7%

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 Badsley Primary School attended 93.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

20142015201620172018201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 3.3%2.5%2.9%2.9%2.0%2.1%2.3%3.8%3.2%3.0%3.3%
Unauthorised absence 2.8%2.8%2.7%2.4%2.7%2.8%2.4%4.3%4.4%4.4%3.7%
Severely absent pupils 0.4%0.4%1.8%0.2%0.4%0.8%1.9%1.0%1.0%0.9%1.8%

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, 1.3% of pupils at Badsley Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

2010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 0.90.01.21.52.44.03.20.70.30.31.40.00.00.40.91.9
Permanent exclusions 0000000000000000

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 Badsley Primary School had 16.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.3% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

2011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 10.311.19.616.36.98.28.29.59.49.910.28.78.89.28.57.2
Teachers who left state teaching 0.0%8.1%10.9%6.4%10.6%11.7%10.7%6.9%1.4%0.0%0.0%1.3%4.3%4.7%8.3%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 84.6%81.3%63.2%37.8%59.0%32.4%66.7%43.8%38.7%–21.2%74.3%71.4%63.6%61.8%–
Sick days per teacher 14.86.14.31.72.91.23.31.61.2–1.55.34.33.92.8–

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, 34.7% of pupils at Badsley Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Speech, language and communication needs 84 15
Autistic spectrum disorder 37 25
Social, emotional and mental health 48 11
Moderate learning difficulty 4 3
No specialist assessment of need 6 0
Specific learning difficulty 5 0
Hearing impairment 3 0
Other difficulty or disability 2 1
Physical disability 1 0

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 Badsley Primary School received £8,480 and spent £8,784 for each of its 548 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £17,000 (-£31 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

20192020202120222023202420252026
Revenue reserve £6,000£21,000£173,000£379,000£273,000£121,000£150,000-£17,000
per pupil £10£35£300£667£490£210£277-£31
In-year balance £32,000£15,000£152,000£207,000-£106,000-£152,000£29,000-£167,000
per pupil £56£25£264£364-£190-£264£53-£305

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

Name Distance
Arnold Nursery School
The Arnold Centre, Rotherham, S65 2LY
0.06 miles
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Herringthorpe Valley Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2NU
0.19 miles
East Dene Primary
Doncaster Road, East Dene, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2DF
0.52 miles
Herringthorpe Junior School
Chatterton Drive, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2JW
0.59 miles
Herringthorpe Infant School
Chatterton Drive, Herringthorpe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2JW
0.62 miles
Coleridge Primary
Coleridge Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 1LW
0.66 miles
High Greave Infant School
High Greave Road, East Herringthorpe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 3LZ
0.71 miles
High Greave Junior School
High Greave Road, East Herringthorpe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 3LZ
0.73 miles
St Ann's Primary School
St Leonard's Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 1PD
0.86 miles
Broom Valley Community School
Broom Valley Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 2QU
0.87 miles
Trinity Croft CofE Primary Academy
Dalton Lane, Dalton Parva, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 3QJ
0.9 miles
Eastwood Village Primary School
Eldon Road, Eastwood Village, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 1RD
0.97 miles
Sitwell Nursery & Infant School
Grange Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LA
1.05 miles
Sitwell Junior School
Sitwell Junior School, Grange Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LA
1.05 miles
Listerdale Primary Academy
Beech Avenue, Brecks, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 3HN
1.2 miles
Foljambe Primary School
Foljambe Drive, Rotherham, S65 4HQ
1.23 miles
Whiston Junior and Infant School
Saville Road, Whiston, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 4DX
1.46 miles
Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant School
Hall Close Avenue, Whiston, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 4AG
1.52 miles
Thrybergh Primary School
Oldgate Lane, Thrybergh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 4JG
1.52 miles
St Gerard's Catholic Primary School
Park Nook Doncaster Road, Thrybergh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 4AE
1.58 miles
Name Distance
St Bernard's Catholic High School
Herringthorpe Valley Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 3BE
0.45 miles
Clifton Community School
Middle Lane, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2SN
0.52 miles
RNN Group
Town Centre Campus, Eastwood Lane, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 1EG
1.04 miles
Thomas Rotherham College
Moorgate Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 2BE
1.18 miles
Oakwood High School
Moorgate Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 2UH
1.19 miles
Newman School
East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LX
1.49 miles
Thrybergh Academy
Park Lane, Thrybergh, Rotherham, S65 4BP
1.94 miles
Wickersley School and Sports College
Bawtry Road, Wickersley, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 1JL
2.27 miles
Wingfield Academy
Wingfield Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 4AU
2.62 miles
Rawmarsh Community School
Monkwood Road, Rawmarsh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S62 7GA
2.64 miles
Kelford School
Oakdale Road, Kimberworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 2NU
2.64 miles
Brinsworth Academy
Brinsworth Road, Brinsworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 5EJ
2.78 miles
Winterhill School
High Street, Kimberworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 2BD
2.91 miles
Abbey School
Little Common Lane, Kimberworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 2RA
3.26 miles
Abbeywood School
Rother Way, Hellaby Industrial Estate, Hellaby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 8QN
3.39 miles
Swinton Academy
East Avenue, Swinton, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, S64 8JW
3.68 miles
The Willows School
Locksley Drive, Thurcroft, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 9NT
3.84 miles
Milton School
Storey Street, Swinton, Mexborough, S64 8QG
4.09 miles
Aston Academy
Aughton Road, Swallownest, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S26 4SF
4.24 miles
Saint Pius X Catholic High School A Specialist School in Humanities
Wath Wood Road, Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 7PQ
4.27 miles

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What is Badsley Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Badsley Primary School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Badsley Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Badsley Primary School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Badsley Primary School have?

Badsley Primary School has 548 pupils on roll.

What age range does Badsley Primary School cover?

Badsley Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 39% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Badsley Primary School?

Badsley Primary School is at Badsley Moor Lane, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2QS.

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