Stonebow Primary School Loughborough

Stonebow Primary School is performing well overall, demonstrating good standards across all areas, including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school has seen significant improvements since its last inspection, moving from requiring improvement to a good rating, highlighting the effectiveness of the leadership and the strong sense of community among staff, students, and parents. Students enjoy a supportive environment where they feel safe and valued, contributing to their overall happiness at school.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate good behaviour and positive attitudes towards learning.
• There is a strong focus on early reading, helping pupils to become keen readers.
• The science curriculum is robust, allowing pupils to build knowledge and engage in experiments.
• Staff work collaboratively to meet the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• The school fosters a strong sense of community and family involvement through events and activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Mathematics achievement needs improvement to match that of reading and writing.
• The music and design technology curriculums are lacking systematic planning to build knowledge and skills.

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 Stonebow Primary School Loughborough attended 92.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.9% 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, 1.0% of pupils at Stonebow Primary School Loughborough 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 Stonebow Primary School Loughborough had 24.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 24.4% 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, 15.1% of pupils at Stonebow Primary School Loughborough were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.5% 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 Stonebow Primary School Loughborough received £6,244 and spent £5,834 for each of its 205 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £289,000 (£1,410 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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What is Stonebow Primary School Loughborough's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Stonebow Primary School Loughborough last inspected by Ofsted?

Stonebow Primary School Loughborough was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Stonebow Primary School Loughborough have?

Stonebow Primary School Loughborough has 199 pupils on roll.

What age range does Stonebow Primary School Loughborough cover?

Stonebow Primary School Loughborough for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 56% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Stonebow Primary School Loughborough?

Stonebow Primary School Loughborough is at Stonebow Close, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 4ZH.