Furness Primary School

Furness Primary School is performing well overall, with strengths in safeguarding, attendance, and inclusion, reflecting a strong standard of education. Leaders have fostered a positive environment where pupils feel safe, respected, and included, which contributes significantly to their personal development and wellbeing. The school successfully implements effective support for disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring access to a broad and ambitious curriculum. However, there are some areas of concern regarding pupils' writing skills, which leaders are actively addressing to enhance achievement across the school.

Strengths

• Strong safeguarding culture where pupils feel safe and valued.
• High levels of attendance and positive attitudes to learning.
• Effective provision for pupils with SEND and disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Well-developed personal development programme fostering social skills and civic responsibility.
• Engaging and ambitious curriculum balancing core knowledge with creative experiences.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils' writing skills require further development and support.
• Inconsistent embedding of improvements in the writing curriculum.

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 Furness Primary School attended 95.4% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Furness 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 Furness Primary School had 20.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 24.7% 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, 22.7% of pupils at Furness Primary School 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 Furness Primary School received £8,589 and spent £7,808 for each of its 335 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £965,000 (£2,885 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of Excellence in Education Trust, income was £8,904 and spending £8,576 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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Furness Primary School is part of Excellence in Education Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• Oakington Manor Primary School Wembley

What is Furness Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Furness Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Furness Primary School was last inspected in March 2026.

How many pupils does Furness Primary School have?

Furness Primary School has 321 pupils on roll.

What age range does Furness Primary School cover?

Furness Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 43% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Furness Primary School?

Furness Primary School is at Furness Road, Harlesden, London, NW10 5YT.