The Disraeli School

The Disraeli School is a happy, inclusive primary where pupils behave well and benefit from an ambitious, well-taught curriculum. Leadership and personal development are outstanding, with a strong nurturing ethos, high expectations and an exceptional range of enrichment. Reading is a strength, early years provision is good, and pupils with SEND, including those in the specially resourced autism provision, receive well-adapted and bespoke support. Safeguarding is effective. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains good in quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, and early years, while personal development and leadership and management are outstanding. Leaders have steered the school well through difficult challenges and maintained a sharp focus on education quality, leading to improved outcomes for most pupils. However, the quality of pupils’ writing is inconsistent, particularly in handwriting, punctuation and sentence construction, and a new writing strategy is at an early stage. Disadvantaged pupils are not achieving as well as they could in English and mathematics, so the pupil premium strategy needs to have greater impact.

Strengths

• Warm, inclusive and happy school culture where diversity is valued
• Pupils behave well, are courteous and respectful, and respond to high expectations
• Outstanding personal development with exceptional clubs, visits and enrichment
• Outstanding leadership and management with clear ambition and moral purpose
• Ambitious, well-designed curriculum taught well across a broad range of subjects
• Strong early reading provision with consistent expertise and timely support
• Effective support for pupils with SEND, including bespoke provision for complex needs
• Nurturing early years environment that helps children settle and feel secure
• Deliberate focus on vocabulary and language development from early years
• Strong community feel with effective governance and support for staff well-being
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistencies in pupils’ writing, including handwriting, punctuation and sentence construction
• New writing curriculum is at an early stage and not yet fully embedded
• Disadvantaged pupils’ achievement in English and mathematics is not yet as strong as it could be
• Pupil premium strategy has not yet had the full intended impact

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 The Disraeli School attended 94.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.7% 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, 1.3% of pupils at The Disraeli 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 The Disraeli School had 20.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 23.4% 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, 20.7% of pupils at The Disraeli School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 18 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 The Disraeli School received £7,622 and spent £7,837 for each of its 636 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £127,000 (-£200 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 The Disraeli School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was The Disraeli School last inspected by Ofsted?

The Disraeli School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does The Disraeli School have?

The Disraeli School has 652 pupils on roll.

What age range does The Disraeli School cover?

The Disraeli School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are The Disraeli School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 51% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is The Disraeli School?

The Disraeli School is at The Pastures, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP13 5JS.