High View Primary Learning Centre

High View Primary Learning Centre has received its first inspection since becoming an academy and has been graded as good overall, with outstanding ratings in behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school is well-integrated into the local community, fostering a supportive environment where pupils feel safe and valued. Pupils achieve well academically, benefiting from an ambitious and well-structured curriculum that is particularly mindful of those with special educational needs.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve well in national assessments.
• Exceptional behaviour and attitudes among pupils.
• Strong relationships established between staff and pupils.
• Highly ambitious and well-structured curriculum.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs.
• Outstanding early years provision fostering language development.
• Strong focus on personal development and community involvement.
• Governors hold leaders accountably and understand their roles.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent delivery of pedagogical approaches in some subjects.

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 High View Primary Learning Centre attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.1% 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, 0.0% of pupils at High View Primary Learning Centre 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 High View Primary Learning Centre had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.7% 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, 17.6% of pupils at High View Primary Learning Centre were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.3% 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 High View Primary Learning Centre received £7,750 and spent £7,760 for each of its 433 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £653,000 (£1,509 per pupil).

Across all 11 schools of Every Child Matters Academy Trust, income was £7,232 and spending £7,315 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 Barnsley · Barnsley local authority: places and applications

High View Primary Learning Centre is part of Every Child Matters Academy Trust, which runs 11 schools. The nearest others:

• Wombwell Park Street Primary School Barnsley
• Hoyland Springwood Primary School Barnsley
• Sandhill Primary School Barnsley
• Ladywood Primary School Barnsley
• Athersley South Primary School Barnsley
• Wilthorpe Primary School Barnsley
• Laithes Primary School Barnsley
• Barugh Green Primary School Barnsley
• Wellgate Primary School Barnsley
• Kexborough Primary School Barnsley

What is High View Primary Learning Centre's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for High View Primary Learning Centre is Good, from an inspection in June 2024.

When was High View Primary Learning Centre last inspected by Ofsted?

High View Primary Learning Centre was last inspected in June 2024.

How many pupils does High View Primary Learning Centre have?

High View Primary Learning Centre has 467 pupils on roll.

What age range does High View Primary Learning Centre cover?

High View Primary Learning Centre for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are High View Primary Learning Centre's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 64% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is High View Primary Learning Centre?

High View Primary Learning Centre is at Newsome Avenue, Wombwell, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S73 8QS.