Elangeni School

Elangeni School remains a good school, noted for its warm and inclusive environment where pupils feel valued and supported. The positive feedback from both students and parents highlights the school's strong pastoral care and emphasis on academic ambition. Pupils engage enthusiastically with their learning, showcasing a clear understanding of the school's values around fairness and respect. Despite its overall effectiveness, the school faces challenges in ensuring the curriculum is consistently well designed across all subjects, particularly in meeting the needs of some students with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). This has resulted in gaps in knowledge for a few students who do not achieve to their full potential.

Strengths

• Pupils love attending this welcoming and inclusive school.
• Strong culture of care that helps pupils feel very safe.
• Ambitious students who engage seriously with their learning.
• High expectations for academic and pastoral development.
• Robust systems to identify and support at-risk pupils.
• Well-sequenced and broad curriculum that fosters curiosity.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects lack a well-designed and sequenced curriculum.
• Needs of a few pupils with SEND are not consistently met.

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 Elangeni School attended 97.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 2.4% 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 Elangeni 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 Elangeni School had 20.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.7% 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, 13.3% of pupils at Elangeni School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.2% 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 Elangeni School received £5,752 and spent £5,717 for each of its 240 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £143,000 (£597 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 Elangeni School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Elangeni School last inspected by Ofsted?

Elangeni School was last inspected in April 2024.

How many pupils does Elangeni School have?

Elangeni School has 240 pupils on roll.

What age range does Elangeni School cover?

Elangeni School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

What are Elangeni School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 85% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Elangeni School?

Elangeni School is at Woodside Avenue, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6EG.