Potley Hill Primary School

Potley Hill Primary School is a happy, caring school where pupils feel safe, behave exceptionally well and achieve well in much of their learning. Leaders have high expectations, and pupils respond positively, showing strong relationships across year groups and high attendance. Reading and mathematics are particular strengths, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are identified and supported effectively. The school provides a broad personal development offer, including leadership roles, trips, community events and after-school activities. Staff are proud to work at the school and feel well supported. Safeguarding arrangements are effective. However, the curriculum in a few foundation subjects is not yet clearly sequenced, so pupils do not always know the essential knowledge they need to remember. In early years, some activities lack a clear learning focus, which limits how deeply children engage and learn. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and was a graded inspection under section 5. Schools inspected from September 2024 are not given an overall effectiveness grade. The previous inspection grade was good.

Strengths

• High expectations and strong pupil achievement in most curriculum subjects
• Exemplary pupil behaviour and positive relationships across year groups
• Confident, fluent reading supported by a systematic phonics approach
• Improved mathematics teaching with strong number fluency and recall
• Effective identification and support for pupils with SEND and gaps in learning
• Rich personal development and a wide range of wider opportunities
• High attendance and strong support for families
• Staff feel proud, well supported and positive about workload and well-being
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Happy, settled early years children cared for by kind staff

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum in a few foundation subjects lacks clearly sequenced key knowledge and skills
• Early years activities sometimes lack a clear learning focus, reducing children’s engagement and depth of 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 Potley Hill Primary School attended 96.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.3% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Potley Hill 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 Potley Hill Primary School had 23.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 36.7% 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, 18.5% of pupils at Potley Hill Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.7% 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 Potley Hill Primary School received £6,747 and spent £6,879 for each of its 195 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £25,000 (£126 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 Potley Hill Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Potley Hill Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was Potley Hill Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Potley Hill Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does Potley Hill Primary School have?

Potley Hill Primary School has 195 pupils on roll.

What age range does Potley Hill Primary School cover?

Potley Hill Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

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

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Potley Hill Primary School?

Potley Hill Primary School is at Potley Hill Road, Potley Hill Primary School, Yateley, Hampshire, GU46 6AG.