Rose Street Primary School

This is a highly inclusive, nurturing primary school at the heart of its community. Pupils feel safe, behave well and are ready to learn, and personal development is a standout strength, supported by exceptionally strong welfare, pastoral and nurture provision. The curriculum has been broadened and well sequenced since the last inspection, reading is prioritised highly, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported precisely so they can access learning successfully. Leaders are ambitious, governance is effective, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The main areas for development are assessment in some wider curriculum subjects, where staff do not routinely check what pupils have remembered, and writing, where gaps in letter formation and spelling are not always addressed quickly enough, so too few pupils write at an age-expected standard. The report notes that this was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and that it is part of a two-school federation; under current arrangements, no overall effectiveness grade is given.

Strengths

• Highly inclusive and nurturing school at the heart of its community
• Pupils feel safe, calm and ready to learn
• Strong behaviour culture built on kindness and respect, with rare disruption
• Pupils feel listened to and take on meaningful responsibilities
• Broad, balanced and well-sequenced curriculum from early years to Year 6
• Precise SEND adaptations help pupils with SEND access the curriculum and achieve well
• Reading is prioritised highly, with effective catch-up support and reading for pleasure from Nursery
• Exceptional personal development with strong welfare, pastoral and nurture support
• Rigorous attendance monitoring and swift action when attendance dips
• Ambitious leaders, effective training, good consideration of staff workload and effective governance
• Rich experiences, including local visits, develop pupils’ understanding of the world
• Early years routines are established clearly and practised regularly

Areas for Improvement

• In some wider curriculum subjects, staff do not routinely check what pupils have remembered
• Misconceptions and knowledge gaps in some subjects are not identified quickly enough
• Writing teaching is not fully embedded, so not enough pupils write at an age-expected standard
• Gaps in pupils’ letter formation and spelling are not always addressed quickly enough

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 Rose Street Primary School attended 91.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 29.0% 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 Rose Street 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 Rose Street Primary School had 20.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.8% 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, 12.0% of pupils at Rose Street Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% 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 Rose Street Primary School received £8,002 and spent £8,215 for each of its 409 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £175,000 (£428 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 Rose Street Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Rose Street Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was Rose Street Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Rose Street Primary School was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does Rose Street Primary School have?

Rose Street Primary School has 424 pupils on roll.

What age range does Rose Street Primary School cover?

Rose Street Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 51% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Rose Street Primary School?

Rose Street Primary School is at Rose Street, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 1AW.