Burnside Primary School

Burnside Primary School continues to be recognized as a good school, demonstrating strong performance in various areas. The school's positive atmosphere is characterized by friendly and respectful pupils who take pride in their learning. Teachers encourage high expectations, and pupils respond by striving to succeed and showing enthusiasm for their studies. While the school excels in providing a well-rounded education with various enrichment opportunities and effective support for mental health and well-being, there remain areas for improvement in the clarity of curriculum expectations in some subjects, particularly history. This is essential for enhancing pupils' retention and understanding of prior learning.

Strengths

• Pupils display good behavior and respect for each other and their teachers.
• There is a strong focus on mental health and emotional well-being.
• Leaders provide an exciting curriculum that builds logically from early years to Year 6.
• Teachers effectively support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils develop strong reading skills through systematic phonics teaching.

Areas for Improvement

• Essential knowledge in some foundation subjects, such as history, is not clearly identified.
• Pupils struggle to recall prior learning due to lack of clarity in main ideas linking knowledge.

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 Burnside Primary School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.9% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Burnside 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 Burnside Primary School had 23.9 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, 13.0% of pupils at Burnside Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.6% 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 Burnside Primary School received £5,920 and spent £5,900 for each of its 501 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £45,000 (£89 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 Burnside Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Burnside Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Burnside Primary School was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does Burnside Primary School have?

Burnside Primary School has 515 pupils on roll.

What age range does Burnside Primary School cover?

Burnside Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Burnside Primary School?

Burnside Primary School is at Northumbrian Road, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 1XZ.