Tetney Primary School

Tetney Primary School continues to demonstrate good performance since its last inspection in November 2018. The school is widely praised for its warm and welcoming environment, where pupils feel happy and safe. With an ambitious curriculum aimed at achieving high standards, pupils excel particularly in writing and achieve well in reading and mathematics. The school is actively working on reviewing and improving its curriculum across a range of subjects, while also ensuring that pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are fully included and supported.

Strengths

• Pupils feel happy and safe at school.
• Strong emphasis on values such as courage and respect.
• High expectations for pupils' behavior and attendance.
• Effective teaching in reading and mathematics.
• Ambitious curriculum under development for all subjects.
• Strong support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
• Good range of extracurricular activities aligned with student interests.
• High levels of staff morale and support for leadership.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum plans for next year’s mixed-age classes not fully determined.
• Less effective assessment in foundation subjects compared to core subjects.
• Recent governance has not been sufficiently wide-ranging or challenging.

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 Tetney Primary School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.6% 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, 4.7% of pupils at Tetney 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 Tetney Primary School had 18.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.3% 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, 13.0% of pupils at Tetney Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 8.1% 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 Tetney Primary School received £8,739 and spent £8,582 for each of its 123 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £89,000 (£725 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 Tetney Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Tetney Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2024.

When was Tetney Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Tetney Primary School was last inspected in March 2024.

How many pupils does Tetney Primary School have?

Tetney Primary School has 123 pupils on roll.

What age range does Tetney Primary School cover?

Tetney Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Tetney Primary School?

Tetney Primary School is at Humberston Road, Tetney, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, DN36 5NG.