Wavell Community Primary School

Wavell Community Infant School is performing well overall, earning a 'Good' rating across all inspected areas. The school benefits from a strong community identity, largely due to its connections with the armed forces, which helps create a nurturing environment for pupils. The staff are dedicated to supporting students, especially those with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), ensuring they feel welcomed and included despite frequent transitions. The new curriculum implemented by the leaders is ambitious and logically organized, with a focus on early reading and phonics that is receiving positive feedback.

Strengths

• Strong community links with the armed forces
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
• High expectations of student achievement
• Successful introduction of a new phonics scheme
• Pupils display high levels of independence and resilience
• A nurturing environment where pupils feel safe and happy

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent effectiveness of assessment in the wider curriculum
• Leaders' monitoring systems lack precision in identifying inconsistencies
• Some inconsistency in adult communication and language modeling in early years

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 Wavell Community Primary School attended 93.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.5% 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 Wavell Community 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 Wavell Community Primary School had 18.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.3% 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, 19.7% of pupils at Wavell Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.7% 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 Wavell Community Primary School received £9,257 and spent £9,392 for each of its 188 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £71,000 (£379 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 Wavell Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wavell Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2022.

When was Wavell Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wavell Community Primary School was last inspected in September 2022.

How many pupils does Wavell Community Primary School have?

Wavell Community Primary School has 193 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wavell Community Primary School cover?

Wavell Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 41% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wavell Community Primary School?

Wavell Community Primary School is at Wavell Road, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, DL9 3BJ.