Padfield Community Primary School

Padfield Community Primary School is a good school across all inspected areas, with pupils who are proud of their school, behave well and support one another. The school has high expectations and has made recent ambitious curriculum changes, particularly in reading and mathematics, where knowledge is carefully sequenced and pupils build understanding securely. Reading is a clear priority, and pupils become confident, enthusiastic readers. Provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities is well organised and inclusive, and personal development is strong, helping pupils understand respect, compassion and community. Leaders, governors and the local authority have worked together through a period of uncertainty, including the headteacher’s absence during the inspection and the appointment of an interim acting headteacher and head of school. Staff are united behind a shared vision and appreciate efforts to reduce workload and provide professional development. Safeguarding arrangements are effective. The main areas for improvement concern the foundation subjects and early years. In some subjects, the curriculum is not yet sequenced clearly enough, and assessment information is not consistently used to address gaps or misconceptions before pupils move on. In the early years, staff do not always track which children have accessed practice opportunities, so the school does not always have a complete picture of what children know and need next.

Strengths

• Pupils are proud of their welcoming school and behave well.
• Older pupils take on leadership roles and support younger pupils.
• The curriculum is ambitious and recently improved across the school.
• Reading is prioritised, and pupils become confident, fluent and enthusiastic readers.
• Mathematics learning is well sequenced, with pupils building secure knowledge over time.
• Provision for pupils with SEND is well organised and inclusive.
• Personal development is strong, rooted in respect, compassion and community spirit.
• Governors fulfil their statutory duties and support school improvement.
• Staff share a clear vision and value workload reductions and professional development.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• In some foundation subjects, the knowledge pupils should learn is not sequenced logically enough.
• Teachers do not consistently use assessment checks in foundation subjects to address gaps or misconceptions.
• Early years staff do not consistently track which children have accessed practice and application opportunities.
• The school is still working out the best ways to deliver new learning in mixed-age classes in some subjects.

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 Padfield Community Primary School attended 96.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 4.2% 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, 0.9% of pupils at Padfield 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 Padfield Community Primary School had 16.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.7% 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, 21.7% of pupils at Padfield Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.2% 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 Padfield Community Primary School received £9,353 and spent £9,920 for each of its 92 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £133,000 (£1,441 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 Padfield Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Padfield Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Padfield Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Padfield Community Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Padfield Community Primary School have?

Padfield Community Primary School has 92 pupils on roll.

What age range does Padfield Community Primary School cover?

Padfield Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 56% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Padfield Community Primary School?

Padfield Community Primary School is at Rhodes Street, Padfield, Glossop, Derbyshire, SK13 1EQ.