Becket Primary School

Becket Primary School is performing well, demonstrating a good overall effectiveness in its educational offerings. Strong relationships between staff and pupils foster a supportive environment where students feel safe and valued. The school's commitment to fostering high expectations and instilling core values among pupils is evident. While leaders are focusing on improving the curriculum and teaching strategies, they acknowledge the need for ongoing development in certain subject areas to enhance clarity in teaching and learning outcomes. The leadership team is relatively new, having undergone significant changes in recent years, which adds a layer of context to their ongoing improvement efforts.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between staff and pupils that promote confidence and happiness.
• Pupils behave well and feel safe, with effective management of bullying.
• Ambitious curriculum that is inclusive of all pupils, including those with SEND.
• Effective phonics teaching leading to pupils becoming fluent readers.
• Commitment to parental involvement and community engagement.
• Pupils have a strong understanding of different faiths, beliefs, and modern British values.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects lack precise identification of key knowledge for pupils to learn.
• Teachers do not always effectively check pupils' understanding, leading to gaps in learning.

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 Becket Primary School attended 93.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.6% 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, 2.9% of pupils at Becket 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 Becket Primary School had 18.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 3.0% 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, 16.7% of pupils at Becket Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.5% 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 Becket Primary School received £8,539 and spent £8,593 for each of its 238 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £103,000 (£433 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 Becket Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Becket Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Becket Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Becket Primary School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Becket Primary School have?

Becket Primary School has 246 pupils on roll.

What age range does Becket Primary School cover?

Becket Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 38% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Becket Primary School?

Becket Primary School is at Stockbrook Street, Derby, DE22 3WR.