Huntington Community Primary School

Huntington Community Primary School is performing well and has been rated as good overall. Pupils feel safe and happy, and the school fosters a strong sense of community through positive relationships among staff and students. The leadership team is ambitious for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disadvantaged backgrounds, contributing to good academic and personal development outcomes. The quality of education is supported by a well-planned curriculum that helps ensure pupils build their knowledge and skills effectively. While the school excels in many areas, there are notable areas for improvement, particularly in certain foundation subjects where leaders need to enhance their checks on curriculum implementation and its impact on learning outcomes. Teachers' assessment strategies in these subjects are still developing, which results in gaps in understanding pupils' retention of knowledge. Addressing these areas will further strengthen the school's educational provision and ensure consistency across all subjects.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between pupils and staff enhance the sense of community.
• Pupils demonstrate good behaviour and attitudes in a calm classroom environment.
• The curriculum is ambitious and well-structured, allowing for effective knowledge building.
• Leaders provide strong support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Pupils achieve well in English and mathematics, demonstrating fluency and comprehension.
• The school offers a variety of extracurricular activities that enrich pupils' experiences.

Areas for Improvement

• Checks on curriculum implementation in some foundation subjects are underdeveloped.
• Assessment strategies in most foundation subjects are not yet sufficient to identify knowledge gaps.

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 Huntington Community Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.9% 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, 1.8% of pupils at Huntington 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 Huntington 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, 0.0% 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, 18.4% of pupils at Huntington Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.4% 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 Huntington Community Primary School received £6,543 and spent £6,633 for each of its 378 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £47,000 (£125 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 Huntington Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Huntington Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2023.

When was Huntington Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Huntington Community Primary School was last inspected in September 2023.

How many pupils does Huntington Community Primary School have?

Huntington Community Primary School has 385 pupils on roll.

What age range does Huntington Community Primary School cover?

Huntington Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Huntington Community Primary School?

Huntington Community Primary School is at Aldford Road, Huntington, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 6EA.