Wheeler Primary School

Wheeler Primary School is performing well overall, meeting the expected standards in various areas including safeguarding, achievement, and personal development. The school has a positive culture that prioritizes safeguarding, resulting in pupils feeling safe and well cared for. Pupils generally progress well, especially in phonics, and there is a strong emphasis on high-quality teaching and an ambitious curriculum. Notably, the school has seen improved performance in writing and maintains a sound approach to behavior and attendance.

Strengths

• High-quality phonics teaching leading to good outcomes in Year 1.
• Positive and inclusive school culture with strong safeguarding practices.
• Strong leadership that drives improvement and supports staff effectively.
• Ambitious, broad, and balanced curriculum that builds knowledge systematically.
• Effective use of restorative approaches to behavior management.

Areas for Improvement

• Some teaching practices need refinement to better support early writing tasks.
• Inconsistencies in adapting teaching for a small number of pupils with diverse needs.

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 Wheeler Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.3% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Wheeler 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 Wheeler Primary School had 18.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.5% 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, 11.5% of pupils at Wheeler Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.3% 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 2024–25 Wheeler Primary School received £7,778 and spent £6,908 for each of its 444 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £154,000 (£346 per pupil).

Across all 16 schools of Hull Collaborative Academy Trust, income was £7,821 and spending £7,723 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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Wheeler Primary School is part of Hull Collaborative Academy Trust, which runs 16 schools. The nearest others:

• Eastfield Primary School Hull
• Thoresby Primary School
• Collingwood Primary School Hull
• Pearson Primary School Hull
• Westcott Primary School Hull
• Sutton Park Primary School Kingston-Upon-Hull
• Dorchester Primary School Hull
• Bellfield Primary School Hull
• Stockwell Academy Hull
• Longhill Primary School Kingston-Upon-Hull

What is Wheeler Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wheeler Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in April 2026.

When was Wheeler Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wheeler Primary School was last inspected in April 2026.

How many pupils does Wheeler Primary School have?

Wheeler Primary School has 451 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wheeler Primary School cover?

Wheeler Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wheeler Primary School?

Wheeler Primary School is at Wheeler Street, Hull, HU3 5QE.