Sayes Court School

Sayes Court School is a primary school in Addlestone and part of Bourne Education Trust. Following its September 2026 full inspection, the school meets the expected standard in every evaluated area, and safeguarding standards are met. Pupils achieve well across the curriculum, attendance is typically above national averages, behaviour is positive, and the school has a clearly inclusive culture. Leaders, governors and the trust work together effectively, and parents are highly positive about the school. Notable strengths include very effective phonics teaching, a well-organised early years provision, strong personal development, and good support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Pupils benefit from a wide range of trips, clubs and experiences, and they speak confidently about their learning. Leadership is reflective, improvement planning is embedded, and staff feel well supported. The main areas for development are inconsistent task design, which sometimes limits how deeply pupils can learn, and early years language modelling that is not always precise enough to develop children's speaking and listening. Leaders are also continuing to refine how they monitor and track achievement so that gaps are identified promptly. Published performance data show that disadvantaged pupils' combined reading, writing and mathematics outcomes, and their mathematics outcomes specifically, are below national averages, with a wide disadvantage gap.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve well across the curriculum and make links between subjects.
• Phonics is taught very effectively with clear support for pupils who need extra help.
• Attendance is typically above national averages, supported by robust systems and pastoral care.
• Pupils are polite, courteous and respectful, and behaviour is typically positive.
• The school has an inclusive culture with secure identification of pupils' needs and effective wellbeing support.
• Early years provision is well organised, with warm relationships and effective mathematics teaching.
• Personal development is broad and equitable, including bespoke internet safety and diverse role models.
• Leadership and governance are reflective, with effective trust support and strong parental confidence.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of trips, clubs and experiences that broaden aspirations.

Areas for Improvement

• Task design is inconsistent and sometimes limits pupils' opportunities to deepen understanding.
• Early years language modelling sometimes lacks precision in developing speaking and listening.
• Leaders are still refining achievement monitoring and tracking so gaps are identified promptly.
• Disadvantaged pupils' combined reading, writing and mathematics outcomes are below national averages.
• Disadvantaged pupils' mathematics outcomes are below national averages and the disadvantage gap is wide.

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 Sayes Court School attended 96.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.2% 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, 1.6% of pupils at Sayes Court 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 Sayes Court School had 21.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 30.0% 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, 9.3% of pupils at Sayes Court School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.8% 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 Sayes Court School received £6,875 and spent £6,533 for each of its 235 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £464,000 (£1,979 per pupil).

Across all 27 schools of Bourne Education Trust, income was £8,217 and spending £7,648 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 Addlestone · Surrey local authority: places and applications

Sayes Court School is part of Bourne Education Trust, which runs 30 schools. The nearest others:

• Jubilee High School Addlestone
• Philip Southcote School Addlestone
• Chertsey High School Addlestone
• Pyrcroft Grange Primary School Chertsey
• Broadmere Primary Academy Woking
• New Monument Primary Academy Woking
• The Matthew Arnold School Staines-Upon-Thames
• Hopescourt School Walton-On-Thames
• Sythwood Primary and Nursery School Woking
• Hampton High Hampton

What is Sayes Court School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Sayes Court School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Sayes Court School last inspected by Ofsted?

Sayes Court School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Sayes Court School have?

Sayes Court School has 237 pupils on roll.

What age range does Sayes Court School cover?

Sayes Court School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Sayes Court School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Sayes Court School?

Sayes Court School is at Sayes Court Farm Drive, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 1NB.