Haveley Hey Community School

Haveley Hey Community School is a happy and calm school where pupils behave well, feel well supported and benefit from strong personal development and early years provision. Reading is a clear priority, phonics is taught effectively, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are identified and supported earlier than before. Attendance has improved, and pupils enjoy a wide range of trips, clubs and responsibilities that broaden their experience. The main concern is the quality of education in Years 1 to 6. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, but in some subjects the order of learning is not clear enough, teaching is not delivered consistently well, and assessment does not reliably identify or close gaps in pupils’ knowledge. As a result, some pupils, including pupils with SEND, do not build knowledge securely over time. Leadership and management also require improvement because the school’s vision is not yet fully realised across all subjects. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. The school is part of the Children of Success Schools Trust, and a new head of school was appointed in September 2024. Safeguarding arrangements are effective, behaviour and personal development are good, and early years provision is good.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, kind and polite, and relationships reflect the school’s values.
• Behaviour and attitudes are good, with calm and purposeful lessons and playtimes.
• The school has high expectations for pupils’ achievement, including pupils with SEND.
• Early years provision is strong and children make a positive start to their education.
• Reading is prioritised, and the phonics programme is delivered effectively from Reception.
• Pupils who fall behind in reading are identified quickly and helped to catch up.
• Provision for pupils with SEND has been strengthened, with earlier identification and appropriate support.
• Attendance and punctuality have improved through successful work with families.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of trips, clubs and memorable learning experiences.
• Governors and trustees understand and carry out their roles effectively.
• Staff enjoy working at the school and are well supported, including with workload.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, the specific knowledge and skills pupils need are not clearly sequenced.
• Some pupils repeat prior learning because curriculum sequencing is unclear.
• Curriculum delivery is not consistently effective in some subjects.
• Assessment is not routinely used to identify and address important gaps in pupils’ knowledge.
• Strategies to help pupils remember and recall learning are not used consistently well.
• Pupils’ learning across the curriculum is not checked as rigorously as leaders intend.
• The school’s ambition is not consistently realised for pupils in Years 1 to 6.
• The school’s vision to provide high-quality education to all pupils is not yet fully realised.

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 Haveley Hey Community School attended 90.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 32.9% 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, 8.5% of pupils at Haveley Hey Community School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Haveley Hey Community School had 17.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.4% 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, 21.8% of pupils at Haveley Hey Community School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.0% 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 2024–25 Haveley Hey Community School received £8,413 and spent £8,370 for each of its 436 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £177,000 (£406 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of Children of Success Schools Trust, income was £8,267 and spending £8,046 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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Haveley Hey Community School is part of Children of Success Schools Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• The Willows Primary School Manchester

What is Haveley Hey Community School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Haveley Hey Community School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was Haveley Hey Community School last inspected by Ofsted?

Haveley Hey Community School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Haveley Hey Community School have?

Haveley Hey Community School has 413 pupils on roll.

What age range does Haveley Hey Community School cover?

Haveley Hey Community School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Haveley Hey Community School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Haveley Hey Community School?

Haveley Hey Community School is at Nearbrook Road, Benchill, Manchester, M22 9NS.