Emmaville Primary School

Emmaville Primary is a warm, inclusive school where pupils feel safe and valued. Relationships are strong, behaviour is positive, and pupils with SEND are well supported to access an ambitious curriculum. The school has high expectations, a broad curriculum, strong reading and phonics provision, and a purposeful early years environment. Personal development is a clear strength, with pupils learning about equality, safety, community responsibility and taking part in a wide range of clubs. Leadership and governance are coherent and caring, staff feel supported, and safeguarding is effective. This was the school's first routine inspection since 2014, following a period of exemption and the pandemic, and it has grown from one-form to two-form entry. Under current arrangements no overall effectiveness grade was awarded, though all key judgements were good. The main area to improve is assessment in some wider curriculum subjects, where checks on learning are less effective than elsewhere and tasks sometimes do not match what pupils already know.

Strengths

• Warm, inclusive culture where pupils feel safe and valued
• Strong support for pupils with SEND, who access the full curriculum and flourish
• Ambitious, broad curriculum with logical sequencing in most areas
• Highly ambitious reading curriculum and effective phonics teaching
• Pupils behave well and show positive attitudes and respect
• Personal development is central, including equality, safety and community activities
• Clear leadership and governance with a consistent vision
• Staff workload and well-being are carefully considered
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Purposeful early years provision with a focus on early language

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment in some wider curriculum subjects is less effective, so tasks do not consistently build on what pupils know

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 Emmaville Primary School attended 96.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.7% 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 Emmaville 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 Emmaville Primary School had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 3.5% 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, 17.0% of pupils at Emmaville Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.8% 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 Emmaville Primary School received £6,304 and spent £6,589 for each of its 429 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £148,000 (£346 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 Emmaville Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Emmaville Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Emmaville Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Emmaville Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Emmaville Primary School have?

Emmaville Primary School has 442 pupils on roll.

What age range does Emmaville Primary School cover?

Emmaville Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Emmaville Primary School?

Emmaville Primary School is at Main Street, Crawcrook, Ryton, Tyne and Wear, NE40 4ND.