Harestock Primary School

Harestock Primary School maintains its good standing and continues to provide a nurturing environment that fosters pupil growth and engagement. Pupils take pride in their achievements and enjoy a diverse set of extracurricular activities that enhance their learning experiences. The school emphasizes reading as a core part of its curriculum, ensuring that pupils develop into enthusiastic readers with strong support for those who struggle. Overall, pupils feel safe, supported, and valued in this welcoming community.

Strengths

• Pupils display high levels of enthusiasm for learning.
• The school has a well-sequenced phonics programme in place.
• Teachers provide clear explanations and effective strategies to enhance understanding.
• Strong relationships are built between staff, pupils, and families.
• The school offers a broad and ambitious curriculum that supports diverse learning needs.

Areas for Improvement

• In a small number of subjects, key knowledge is not sufficiently detailed, impacting pupil 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 Harestock Primary School attended 96.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.8% 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, 3.2% of pupils at Harestock 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 Harestock Primary School had 19.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 7.9% of pupils at Harestock Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.5% 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 Harestock Primary School received £7,644 and spent £7,554 for each of its 177 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £211,000 (£1,191 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 Harestock Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Harestock Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Harestock Primary School was last inspected in September 2023.

How many pupils does Harestock Primary School have?

Harestock Primary School has 177 pupils on roll.

What age range does Harestock Primary School cover?

Harestock Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

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

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

Where is Harestock Primary School?

Harestock Primary School is at Bramshaw Close, Harestock, Harestock Primary School, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 6LU.