Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School

Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School is performing well overall, with a solid 'Good' rating across all inspection areas. The school fosters a positive and inclusive environment where pupils feel safe, happy, and supported. They benefit from various leadership opportunities and a wide range of extracurricular activities, which contribute to their personal development and engagement in school life. The leadership team has a good understanding of the school's strengths and areas for improvement, supported by positive staff feedback and a strong response from parents in surveys.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy harmonious relationships and feel safe.
• High expectations for behaviour and academic achievement.
• Effective phonics teaching starting from Nursery and Reception.
• Strong support for struggling readers, including tailored interventions.
• Inclusive curriculum that reflects national standards and is well complemented by extracurricular activities.
• Effective communication and engagement with parents.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum development plans have been hindered by previous staff turbulence.
• Inconsistent understanding and implementation of new initiatives by staff.
• Unclear mapping of purpose, sequencing, and assessment 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 Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School attended 95.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.8% 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, 1.0% of pupils at Belmont Cheveley Park 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 Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School had 18.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.5% 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, 16.0% of pupils at Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 14 pupils.

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 Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School received £8,086 and spent £8,081 for each of its 206 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £272,000 (£1,318 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 Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School is Good, from an inspection in June 2024.

When was Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School was last inspected in June 2024.

How many pupils does Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School have?

Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School has 206 pupils on roll.

What age range does Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School cover?

Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School?

Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School is at Scardale Way, Belmont, Durham, County Durham, DH1 2TX.