Brunswick Community Primary School

Brunswick Community Primary School continues to demonstrate good performance, fostering a strong sense of community among students, families, and staff. The school is characterized by a calm atmosphere and a culture of respect, enabling pupils to feel safe and supported. While the school emphasizes reading and mathematics, with well-trained staff and a broad curriculum, it recognizes the need to enhance phonics support for Year 1 pupils and ensure consistent subject teaching to reinforce knowledge retention across the curriculum. Overall, the school is committed to helping all pupils achieve their potential and is aware of the areas needing further improvement.

Strengths

• Strong sense of community and support among families, children, and staff.
• Pupils feel safe and listened to, with effective behaviour management.
• Ambitious and diverse curriculum for all pupils, including those with SEND.
• Effective mathematics curriculum that builds knowledge over time.
• Strong support for pupils with SEND, ensuring inclusive learning opportunities.
• Well-supported extra-curricular activities, including musical opportunities and trips.

Areas for Improvement

• Phonics outcomes in Year 1 are significantly below national levels.
• Support for weaker readers has focused too narrowly on a small cohort.
• Some subjects are not consistently taught throughout the year, risking knowledge retention.

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 Brunswick Community Primary School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.0% 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, 1.5% of pupils at Brunswick Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Brunswick Community Primary School had 21.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.4% 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, 16.6% of pupils at Brunswick Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.4% 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 Brunswick Community Primary School received £6,868 and spent £6,651 for each of its 453 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £281,000 (£622 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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Brunswick Community Primary School is part of The Crucible Co-Operative Learning Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• Athelstan Primary School Sheffield

What is Brunswick Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Brunswick Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2023.

When was Brunswick Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Brunswick Community Primary School was last inspected in December 2023.

How many pupils does Brunswick Community Primary School have?

Brunswick Community Primary School has 459 pupils on roll.

What age range does Brunswick Community Primary School cover?

Brunswick Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 54% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Brunswick Community Primary School?

Brunswick Community Primary School is at Station Road, Woodhouse, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S13 7RB.