Goodyers End Primary School

Goodyers End Primary School is a caring, inclusive school where pupils are happy, feel safe and typically behave well. Most areas of provision are secure: children get off to a strong start in the early years, pupils make secure progress in reading, writing and mathematics, and vulnerable pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those in the specialist resource provision, achieve well. Pastoral support is a particular strength, and the broad curriculum and personal development programme help pupils understand their community and the wider world.

Strengths

• Warm, nurturing relationships help pupils feel safe and well cared for.
• Children settle quickly and make secure progress in the early years.
• Pupils build secure knowledge in early reading, spelling and number.
• Vulnerable pupils, including those with SEND and in the specialist resource provision, achieve well.
• The curriculum is broad, suitably ambitious and builds incrementally on prior learning.
• Staff receive regular training and explain concepts clearly to pupils.
• Staff intervene quickly when pupils struggle and adapt activities well for pupils with SEND.
• Pastoral support is a strength and is closely matched to pupils' needs.
• Pupils typically behave well and show positive attitudes to learning.
• Personal development helps pupils understand British values, diversity and keeping safe.
• Governors are knowledgeable and particularly alert to the needs of vulnerable pupils.
• Leaders engage effectively with external bodies and local schools to share good practice.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils' attendance has been below the national average for three years.
• The proportion of pupils who are persistently absent is high.
• Support to improve attendance does not yet have a consistent and sustained impact.
• The teaching of handwriting is inconsistent, and some staff do not model letter formation accurately.
• Leaders do not always evaluate the impact of their actions precisely enough to refine strategies.
• Governors recognise that they could check the impact of their work with more precision.
• Leaders do not always analyse information precisely enough to understand the impact of strategies on individual pupils and groups.

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 Goodyers End Primary School attended 92.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 22.3% 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, 3.1% of pupils at Goodyers End Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). 2 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 Goodyers End Primary School had 21.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.3% 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, 25.6% of pupils at Goodyers End Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 13 pupils.

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 Goodyers End Primary School received £8,172 and spent £8,221 for each of its 391 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £361,000 (£923 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 Goodyers End Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Goodyers End Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Goodyers End Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Goodyers End Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Goodyers End Primary School have?

Goodyers End Primary School has 391 pupils on roll.

What age range does Goodyers End Primary School cover?

Goodyers End Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 60% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Goodyers End Primary School?

Goodyers End Primary School is at Bowling Green Lane, Bedworth, Warwickshire, CV12 0HP.