St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is a 201-pupil primary in Bracknell Forest. Following its October 2024 graded inspection, the school was judged good in quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision; under the current framework, no overall effectiveness grade is given. Pupils are positive and focused, behaviour expectations are clear and applied consistently, and the school has a caring ethos, including older pupils acting as buddies for children in the early years. Reading is central to the school's improvement work, with consistent phonics support helping weaker readers and pupils with SEND. Pupils with SEND are well supported and achieve well, attendance work is highly effective, and personal development is strong, including opportunities for contemplation, discussion of current affairs and pupil leadership roles. Leaders and governors have made high-impact changes, created an open culture with staff and parents, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The main areas for improvement concern the curriculum and assessment. Some older key stage 2 pupils have gaps in foundation subjects because weaknesses in previous curriculums have not been fully addressed, which can make tasks harder to access. In addition, teachers in some subjects are not consistently rigorous in checking pupils' understanding or addressing misconceptions, so learning is not always as secure as it could be. The school should close older pupils' gaps as the new foundation subject curriculum embeds and ensure all staff have the expertise to check for and address misconceptions during learning.

Strengths

• Pupils are positive, enthusiastic and focused in class.
• Behaviour expectations are clear, fair and consistently applied.
• Older pupils act as buddies for children in the early years, creating a caring ethos.
• Reading is at the heart of improvement work, with frequent stories and consistent phonics from Reception.
• Pupils with SEND benefit strongly from bespoke support and achieve well.
• Attendance work is highly effective, including for disadvantaged pupils, and persistent absence is low.
• Personal development fosters respect, contemplation and understanding of different perspectives.
• Pupils have leadership roles and feel their views are heard.
• Leaders and governors have created an open culture and prioritised high-impact changes.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Some older key stage 2 pupils have gaps in foundation subjects because previous curriculum weaknesses have not been fully addressed.
• Gaps in older pupils' understanding can make it difficult for them to access tasks and deepen their knowledge.
• In some subjects, teachers do not check pupils' understanding with sufficient rigour.
• Not all teachers are systematic in checking that pupils understand the intended learning in each task.
• Some pupils' learning is less secure because misconceptions are not consistently identified and addressed.

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 St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.6% 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, 3.0% of pupils at St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided 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 St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School had 16.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.9% 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, 19.6% of pupils at St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.6% 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 St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School received £7,597 and spent £7,191 for each of its 184 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £47,000 (£257 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 St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School have?

St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School has 184 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School cover?

St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 48% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School?

St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is at Crowthorne Road, Easthampstead, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 7EH.