Toner Avenue Primary School

Toner Avenue Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating in areas such as the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, leadership, and early years provision. The school creates a positive and welcoming environment, where strong relationships between staff and pupils foster a feeling of safety and confidence. Despite notable strengths, such as effective support for pupils with special educational needs, the school faces challenges in ensuring consistent understanding of British values and cultural diversity among pupils, as well as addressing high rates of persistent absence, particularly among disadvantaged pupils. This inspection marks the school's first routine evaluation following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between staff and pupils
• High expectations for all pupils, including those with SEND
• Well-sequenced curriculum that is effectively delivered
• Good understanding of personal safety and anti-bullying
• Positive feedback from parents regarding the support provided
• Effective safeguarding arrangements in place
• Well-developed early years curriculum with strong adult-child interactions

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent use of assessment information to address gaps in learning
• Lack of explicit teaching in some areas of personal development
• High rates of persistent absence among pupils eligible for pupil premium funding

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 Toner Avenue Primary School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.5% 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, 0.6% of pupils at Toner Avenue 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 Toner Avenue Primary School had 23.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 22.6% 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, 20.1% of pupils at Toner Avenue 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 Toner Avenue Primary School received £6,431 and spent £6,500 for each of its 505 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £373,000 (-£740 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 Toner Avenue Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Toner Avenue Primary School is Good, from an inspection in June 2022.

When was Toner Avenue Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Toner Avenue Primary School was last inspected in June 2022.

How many pupils does Toner Avenue Primary School have?

Toner Avenue Primary School has 512 pupils on roll.

What age range does Toner Avenue Primary School cover?

Toner Avenue Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

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

Where is Toner Avenue Primary School?

Toner Avenue Primary School is at Johnston Avenue, Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, NE31 2LJ.