Marshgate Primary School

Marshgate Primary School is a nurturing and welcoming community primary where pupils are proud to attend, feel safe and behave exceptionally well. The school offers a broad, ambitious curriculum that builds knowledge step by step, and pupils achieve strongly, including in national tests at the end of Year 6. Reading and phonics are well taught, pupils with SEND are supported effectively, attendance is very high, and the personal development programme is a particular strength, with wide enrichment and leadership opportunities. The inspection took place as the first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and the school has experienced significant recent staffing changes. Leaders and governors responded swiftly, and staff value the support and professional development they receive. Safeguarding arrangements are effective, and parents are very positive about the school. The main area for improvement is consistency in curriculum delivery. Sometimes activities do not help pupils deepen their thinking, and checks on pupils' understanding are not consistently sharp enough, which can leave gaps in knowledge. Some pupils' work does not always reflect the high expectations of the curriculum, so the school should develop staff expertise in delivering and adapting the curriculum more consistently.

Strengths

• Nurturing and supportive environment where pupils feel safe and proud
• Outstanding behaviour and very strong attitudes to learning
• Exceptional personal development programme with rich enrichment opportunities
• Broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum sequenced to build knowledge over time
• Strong reading and phonics provision, including support for struggling readers and pupils with EAL
• Effective SEND identification and support so pupils access the same curriculum
• High achievement in national reading, writing and mathematics tests at the end of Year 6
• Very high attendance supported by robust systems and work with families
• Wide range of pupil leadership responsibilities and musical and sporting opportunities
• Leaders and governors responded swiftly and appropriately to significant staffing changes
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum delivery sometimes does not enable pupils to deepen their learning and extend their thinking
• Checks on pupils' understanding are sometimes not sharp or consistently used, allowing gaps in knowledge to occur
• Some pupils' work does not consistently reflect the high expectations of the curriculum
• Some younger children occasionally need to focus more closely on teacher explanations
• Staff need greater expertise and consistency in delivering and adapting the ambitious curriculum

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 Marshgate Primary School attended 96.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 5.8% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Marshgate 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 Marshgate Primary School had 20.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.7% 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, 2.8% of pupils at Marshgate Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% 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 Marshgate Primary School received £7,217 and spent £7,268 for each of its 389 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £172,000 (£442 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 Marshgate Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Marshgate Primary School is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Marshgate Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Marshgate Primary School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Marshgate Primary School have?

Marshgate Primary School has 389 pupils on roll.

What age range does Marshgate Primary School cover?

Marshgate Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 88% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Marshgate Primary School?

Marshgate Primary School is at 157 Queens Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 6HY.