Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School

Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School continues to demonstrate a strong performance as a good school, maintaining positive outcomes for its pupils since its last inspection. Pupils are engaged, feel safe, and exhibit the school's core values of faith, love, and respect. They produce high-quality work and are especially excelling in core subjects such as reading and mathematics while also enjoying a variety of enriching extracurricular activities. The school has shown commitment to supporting all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring they achieve well.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate the school's values of faith, love, and respect.
• Pupils produce high-quality work in core subjects.
• Teachers effectively check and support pupils' learning.
• Reading is prioritized, leading to confident and fluent readers.
• The curriculum is ambitious and broad, tailored for all pupils.
• Pupils participate in extensive extracurricular opportunities.
• The school fosters an inclusive environment.
• Staff work collaboratively and are well supported in their professional development.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent checking of pupils' understanding in some subjects.
• Gaps in learning are addressed but not always swiftly enough.

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 Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School attended 95.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.8% 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 Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) 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 Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School had 25.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.6% 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, 12.1% of pupils at Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.5% 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 Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School received £5,964 and spent £6,041 for each of its 421 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £180,000 (£427 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 Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2023.

When was Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School was last inspected in December 2023.

How many pupils does Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School have?

Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School has 421 pupils on roll.

What age range does Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School cover?

Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School?

Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School is at Mulberry Lane, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, BN12 4RN.