Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School

Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School is a welcoming, inclusive and nurturing school where pupils feel happy, safe and well cared for. Inspectors found the school to be good across all key judgements: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school provides a broad and ambitious curriculum, strong early reading and phonics, effective support for pupils with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language, and a wide range of personal development opportunities. Pupils behave well, are polite and enthusiastic learners, and benefit from strong pastoral support and positive relationships with staff.

Strengths

• Welcoming, inclusive and nurturing school culture that prioritises pupil well-being
• Pupils feel happy and safe and have consistently positive attitudes to learning
• Broad and ambitious curriculum with clearly identified key knowledge and skills
• Strong early reading and phonics provision, including effective support for pupils who find reading difficult
• Secure subject knowledge among staff, with effective explanation, modelling and revisiting of learning
• Curriculum adapted effectively to meet the needs of pupils with SEND and pupils who speak English as an additional language
• Pupils behave well and are polite, friendly and sociable
• Strong pastoral support and caring relationships between staff and pupils
• Effective personal development provision, including responsibilities, charity work and outdoor challenges
• Leaders and staff work well together, staff morale is high and safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• In a minority of subjects, assessment checks do not routinely identify whether pupils have gained the expected knowledge, leaving some pupils, including pupils with SEND, with gaps in learning
• The school does not thoroughly check the impact of its actions to support pupils’ welfare, attendance and behaviour, limiting its understanding of what is working

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 Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.3% 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, 1.2% of pupils at Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School had 19.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.5% 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, 19.9% of pupils at Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.7% 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 Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School received £6,584 and spent £7,070 for each of its 296 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £116,000 (-£391 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 Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2025.

When was Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School was last inspected in January 2025.

How many pupils does Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School have?

Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School has 296 pupils on roll.

What age range does Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School cover?

Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 64% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School?

Tewkesbury Church of England Primary School is at Chance Street, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 5RQ.