Bude Park Primary School

Bude Park Primary School is maintaining its status as a good school, as confirmed by the recent inspection. The school creates a positive and safe learning environment where pupils feel happy and are well cared for by dedicated staff. There is a strong focus on high expectations for behaviour and academic achievement, particularly for disadvantaged pupils, who show impressive progress. The school has embedded effective strategies for supporting students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), further enhancing its commitment to inclusivity. While the overall curriculum from early years to Year 6 shows ambition and coherence, there are notable concerns regarding the consistency of early years implementation. Variability in how children’s learning is organised affects their readiness for the next stage in their education. Despite this, the strong support from leadership and the trust indicates a clear direction for improvement in this area, as the school resolves to enhance its early years provision for better outcomes.

Strengths

• Pupils feel happy and safe at school.
• High expectations for pupil behaviour are met consistently.
• Strong support systems for pupils with SEND.
• Ambitious and coherent curriculum from early years to Year 6.
• Effective phonics teaching in early years and key stage 1.
• Strong outcomes achieved by pupils, especially in 2023.
• Well-managed playtime with opportunities for cooperative games.
• Effective monitoring of pupil attendance leading to high rates.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent implementation of the early years curriculum.
• Variability in the quality of early years experiences.

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 Bude Park Primary School attended 95.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.3% 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, 0.5% of pupils at Bude Park 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 Bude Park Primary School had 20.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.0% 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, 20.4% of pupils at Bude Park Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% 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 Bude Park Primary School received £8,092 and spent £7,885 for each of its 210 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £427,000 (£2,034 per pupil).

Across all 17 schools of Humber Education Trust, income was £9,935 and spending £9,655 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 Hull · Kingston upon Hull, City of local authority: places and applications

Bude Park Primary School is part of Humber Education Trust, which runs 17 schools. The nearest others:

• Broadacre Primary School Hull
• Kingswood Parks Primary School Hull
• Parkstone Primary School Hull
• Highlands Primary School Hull
• Tweendykes School Hull
• St Nicholas Primary School Kingston-Upon-Hull
• Neasden Primary School Hull
• Frederick Holmes School Hull
• Clifton Primary School Hull
• Maybury Primary School Hull

What is Bude Park Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Bude Park Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2024.

When was Bude Park Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Bude Park Primary School was last inspected in September 2024.

How many pupils does Bude Park Primary School have?

Bude Park Primary School has 206 pupils on roll.

What age range does Bude Park Primary School cover?

Bude Park Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Bude Park Primary School?

Bude Park Primary School is at Cookbury Close, Bransholme, Hull, HU7 4EY.