Church Preen Primary School

Church Preen Primary School has been rated as good overall, showcasing a positive learning environment where pupils thrive. The community and familial approach encourages respectful interactions, and pupils exhibit strong behavior and good attendance. With effective leadership, the school successfully supports its students, including those with special educational needs, ensuring they achieve well and are prepared for their future educational stages. The school's curriculum is broad and ambitious, with effective phonics and mathematics instruction, although some areas require further development in lesson planning and implementation.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy a supportive and nurturing learning environment.
• Strong community ethos fosters respect and cooperation among pupils.
• Effective leadership works hard to help all pupils learn well.
• Ambitious and broad curriculum is in place for all pupils.
• Good instruction in phonics and mathematics enables pupils to achieve well.
• High engagement in enrichment activities builds confidence in students.
• Pupils develop a sense of responsibility through various leadership opportunities.

Areas for Improvement

• Some topic and lesson plans lack detail and do not effectively support pupil learning.
• Subject leaders do not regularly check the quality of lesson delivery.
• Early years staff may lack sufficient skills to support children's behavior and learning effectively.

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 Church Preen Primary School attended 91.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 28.1% 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 Church Preen 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 Church Preen Primary School had 20.5 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, 9.8% of pupils at Church Preen 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 Church Preen Primary School received £10,754 and spent £10,747 for each of its 41 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £4,000 (-£102 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 Church Preen Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Church Preen Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2024.

When was Church Preen Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Church Preen Primary School was last inspected in July 2024.

How many pupils does Church Preen Primary School have?

Church Preen Primary School has 41 pupils on roll.

What age range does Church Preen Primary School cover?

Church Preen Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

Where is Church Preen Primary School?

Church Preen Primary School is at Church Preen, Nr Much Wenlock, Shropshire, SY6 7LH.