Cowling Community Primary School

Cowling Community Primary School is performing well, maintaining the high standards noted in its previous inspections. The school fosters a welcoming and safe environment, where pupils are happy and proud to attend. The curriculum is varied and ambitious, ensuring engaging lessons that promote a love for learning among students. Relationships between staff and pupils are strong, contributing to a positive atmosphere that encourages collaboration and pride in achievements.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate strong enthusiasm and excitement for learning.
• The curriculum is thoughtfully designed and sequenced, facilitating meaningful connections between subjects.
• Strong foundations in early years education are established.
• Effective approaches are in place to check learning in English and mathematics.
• There is a strong emphasis on reading, with skilled phonics instruction.
• The school has a welcoming and inclusive ethos, particularly for SEND pupils.

Areas for Improvement

• The school is still developing assessment methods in some foundation subjects.

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 Cowling Community Primary School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.7% 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 Cowling 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 Cowling Community Primary School had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.9% 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, 11.0% of pupils at Cowling Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.4% 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 Cowling Community Primary School received £7,937 and spent £8,284 for each of its 118 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £35,000 (£300 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 Cowling Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Cowling Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was Cowling Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Cowling Community Primary School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Cowling Community Primary School have?

Cowling Community Primary School has 118 pupils on roll.

What age range does Cowling Community Primary School cover?

Cowling Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 53% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Cowling Community Primary School?

Cowling Community Primary School is at Gill Lane, Cowling, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 0DF.