Southfields Primary School

Southfields Primary School is a highly inclusive, well-led school where pupils achieve well from lower starting points. All inspected areas were judged to be strong, and safeguarding standards are met. The school serves a community with above-average deprivation and a higher-than-average proportion of disadvantaged pupils, and leaders have built a warm, ambitious culture that supports pupils with SEND and other barriers to learning to access the same curriculum as their peers.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve well across a broad, ambitious curriculum and are well prepared for the next stage of education.
• Early years provision gives children a highly positive start, with strong foundations in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Attendance is consistently above the national average and persistent absence is consistently below it.
• Behaviour is calm and purposeful, with exemplary conduct at lunchtimes and playtimes.
• The school has a highly inclusive ethos and supports disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND to progress well.
• Leaders have designed a well-sequenced curriculum and review its impact carefully.
• Teachers benefit from high-quality professional development and consistently effective teaching.
• Phonics is taught systematically, and reading support is matched carefully to pupils’ needs.
• Governors are knowledgeable, ambitious and robust in their challenge.
• Staff report that leaders listen to them and manage workload and wellbeing well.
• Personal development is rich and inclusive, with strong opportunities for leadership, clubs and wider experiences.
• Pupils understand the school’s values and show kindness, respect and empathy.

Areas for Improvement

• Teaching adaptations and adjustments across all subjects and phases should be refined so they are highly responsive.
• Handwriting standards should be raised through targeted, precise and impactful practice.
• Assessment systems should be refined to secure pupil knowledge further and ensure high achievement for all.

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 Southfields Primary School attended 96.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.2% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Southfields 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 Southfields Primary School had 23.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.5% 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, 7.1% of pupils at Southfields Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.8% 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 Southfields Primary School received £7,786 and spent £7,738 for each of its 433 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £614,000 (£1,419 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 Southfields Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Southfields Primary School is Strong standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Southfields Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Southfields Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Southfields Primary School have?

Southfields Primary School has 450 pupils on roll.

What age range does Southfields Primary School cover?

Southfields Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Southfields Primary School?

Southfields Primary School is at East Street, Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 5LS.