Coates Primary School

Coates Primary School is performing well overall, with a consistent level of good across all inspected areas including the quality of education, behavior, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. Pupils enjoy their learning experiences while benefiting from a well-organized curriculum that promotes engagement and revisits prior knowledge effectively. The school community fosters a caring environment where pupils feel safe and confident, and they are well-prepared for their next educational steps. The school has recently undergone its first inspection since the pandemic, which has highlighted the positive impact of the school’s leadership and the support for its pupils.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy a collaborative and caring environment.
• Leaders have established high expectations for pupil achievement.
• Strong focus on supporting emotional well-being.
• Effective teaching of reading with high-quality support for pupils who struggle.
• Good support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils demonstrate good behavior and well-understand the school's expectations.
• Diversity and contemporary societal values are celebrated in the curriculum.

Areas for Improvement

• Governors need to re-establish routines for checking the effectiveness of the curriculum.
• Some pupils still need to catch up in reading despite improvements in teaching.

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 Coates Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.7% 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, 3.4% of pupils at Coates 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 Coates Primary School had 20.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.3% 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, 13.7% of pupils at Coates Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.7% 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 Coates Primary School received £8,379 and spent £8,583 for each of its 183 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £189,000 (£1,035 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 Coates Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Coates Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2022.

When was Coates Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Coates Primary School was last inspected in July 2022.

How many pupils does Coates Primary School have?

Coates Primary School has 183 pupils on roll.

What age range does Coates Primary School cover?

Coates Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

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

In 2025, 47% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Coates Primary School?

Coates Primary School is at The Fold, Coates, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 2BP.