Highfield Community Primary School

Highfield Community Primary School is recognized for maintaining a good standard of education, continuing to support a nurturing environment where pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) thrive. The educational environment is marked by high levels of pupil satisfaction, with students feeling safe and actively engaged in their learning. Recent improvements to the curriculum have enhanced the overall educational experience, focusing on structured lesson content and effective recall practices that support knowledge retention. There is a commitment to wider pupil development through various extracurricular activities, contributing positively to pupil experience.

Strengths

• Caring and nurturing environment for pupils.
• High levels of support for pupils with SEND.
• Pupils enjoy school and feel safe.
• Well-structured reading curriculum and effective phonics instruction.
• Wide range of extracurricular activities and clubs.
• Strong emphasis on personal development and respect for diversity.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent opportunities for pupils to demonstrate depth of knowledge in some subjects.

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 Highfield Community Primary School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 18.1% 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 Highfield 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 Highfield Community Primary School had 21.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.1% 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, 33.9% of pupils at Highfield Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.8% 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 Highfield Community Primary School received £10,293 and spent £10,374 for each of its 107 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £72,000 (£671 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 Highfield Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Highfield Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in April 2024.

When was Highfield Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Highfield Community Primary School was last inspected in April 2024.

How many pupils does Highfield Community Primary School have?

Highfield Community Primary School has 112 pupils on roll.

What age range does Highfield Community Primary School cover?

Highfield Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Highfield Community Primary School?

Highfield Community Primary School is at Whinfield Way, Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear, NE39 2JE.