Tubbenden Primary School

Tubbenden Primary is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating across several key areas, including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school demonstrates a strong commitment to its core values, fostering an environment where pupils feel happy and safe. Notably, personal development is rated as 'Outstanding', indicating that the school excels in providing opportunities for students to engage in extracurricular activities and develop important life skills.

Strengths

• Strong core values that promote respect, excellence, and honesty among pupils.
• High expectations of pupils and effective curriculum design, including for those with SEND.
• Well-organized extracurricular activities and educational visits that enrich the curriculum.
• Effective leadership that supports staff well-being and training opportunities.
• Strong culture of safeguarding with effective support systems for pupils.

Areas for Improvement

• Need for a more coherent curriculum development in some areas of study.
• Inconsistent identification of knowledge retention among pupils in a few subjects.
• Lack of a systematically sequenced curriculum in early years.

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 Tubbenden Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.9% 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, 0.6% of pupils at Tubbenden 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 Tubbenden Primary School had 22.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.1% 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, 15.6% of pupils at Tubbenden Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 31 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 2023–24 Tubbenden Primary School received £6,609 and spent £6,575 for each of its 695 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £136,000 (£196 per pupil).

Across all 12 schools of Lumero Educational Trust, income was £6,438 and spending £6,434 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Bromley · Bromley local authority: places and applications

Tubbenden Primary School is part of Lumero Educational Trust, which runs 12 schools. The nearest others:

• Darrick Wood Junior School Orpington
• Green Street Green Primary School Orpington
• The Highway Primary School Orpington
• Chelsfield Primary School Orpington
• Pratts Bottom Primary School Orpington
• Bullers Wood School for Boys Bromley
• Bullers Wood School Chislehurst
• Chislehurst School for Girls Chislehurst
• Charles Darwin School Westerham
• Biggin Hill Primary School Westerham

What is Tubbenden Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Tubbenden Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2023.

When was Tubbenden Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Tubbenden Primary School was last inspected in July 2023.

How many pupils does Tubbenden Primary School have?

Tubbenden Primary School has 647 pupils on roll.

What age range does Tubbenden Primary School cover?

Tubbenden Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 78% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Tubbenden Primary School?

Tubbenden Primary School is at Sandy Bury, Orpington, Kent, BR6 9SD.