Chuter Ede Primary School

Chuter Ede Primary School is a community primary school that inspectors found to be performing well across all inspected areas. Pupils are happy and safe, behave well and are proud of their school. Pastoral care and personal development are particular strengths, pupils with SEND are supported very effectively, and the curriculum is broad and ambitious. Reading and phonics are prioritised, mathematics builds depth over time, attendance has improved, safeguarding is effective, and governors and staff are positive about leadership. However, assessment is not consistently effective across the curriculum. In foundation subjects especially, checks on learning are less well developed, so leaders do not have a secure understanding of how well pupils retain key content over time and some misconceptions are not picked up promptly. The report also notes that planned relationships and sex education aspects of the new PSHE curriculum are yet to be taught this school year. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was inspected under the framework in which schools do not receive an overall effectiveness grade. The previous inspection was outstanding, and the headteacher has been in post since 2019.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, safe and proud of their school
• Strong pastoral care and personal development provision
• SEND provision is highly effective
• Reading and phonics are prioritised and taught consistently
• Mathematics curriculum builds depth over time
• Broad and ambitious curriculum across subjects
• Pupils behave well and are polite and respectful
• Attendance has improved and systems challenge poor attendance
• Governors know the school’s strengths and priorities and support and challenge appropriately
• Staff value leadership and considerate workload and well-being

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment is inconsistent, particularly in foundation subjects
• Leaders lack a secure understanding of how well pupils remember key content over time
• Some misconceptions and errors in learning are not identified and addressed
• Planned relationships and sex education aspects of the new PSHE curriculum have not yet been taught this school year

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 Chuter Ede Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.2% 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, 0.6% of pupils at Chuter Ede 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 Chuter Ede Primary School had 21.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 3.6% 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, 7.3% of pupils at Chuter Ede Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.4% 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 Chuter Ede Primary School received £6,474 and spent £6,597 for each of its 615 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £47,000 (-£76 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 Chuter Ede Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Chuter Ede Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Chuter Ede Primary School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Chuter Ede Primary School have?

Chuter Ede Primary School has 615 pupils on roll.

What age range does Chuter Ede Primary School cover?

Chuter Ede Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

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

In 2025, 64% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Chuter Ede Primary School?

Chuter Ede Primary School is at Wolfit Avenue, Balderton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 3PQ.