High Greave Infant School

High Greave Infant School is a rapidly improving infant academy within Learner’s Trust, judged good in quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management, with outstanding early years provision. The previous inspection grade was requires improvement. Leaders and trust support have brought about significant change, and pupils now achieve increasingly well, feel safe and cared for, behave politely, and attend better. Safeguarding is effective. The school’s main strengths are its strong early years provision, ambitious curriculum, effective support for pupils with SEND, consistent behaviour expectations, and wide personal development opportunities. Leaders have a shared ambition and have used trust training and support well to drive improvement. The main concerns are that, in some subjects with recent curriculum changes, pupils do not consistently revisit and build on prior learning, and some aspects of subject leadership are less developed, leading to variation in curriculum implementation.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe, cared for and valued.
• Pupils are polite, well mannered and respectful.
• Pupils meet the school’s high behaviour expectations.
• The school is improving rapidly under strong leadership and trust support.
• Children get off to a flying start in the outstanding early years provision.
• The curriculum is ambitious across all subjects.
• Teachers have good subject knowledge and present information well.
• Pupils with SEND receive effective resources and support to access the curriculum.
• Behaviour expectations are applied consistently, and suspensions have reduced dramatically.
• Attendance has improved through a wide range of family support strategies.
• Pupils are well prepared for life beyond school through personal development.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Trust leaders have prioritised effective training and personnel support.

Areas for Improvement

• The school does not consistently check how well pupils remember previous learning.
• In some subjects, recent curriculum changes need time to embed.
• Some pupils are not given enough opportunities to revisit and consolidate longer-term learning.
• Some pupils cannot remember and build on prior knowledge as well as they could.
• Some aspects of subject leadership are less developed than others.
• Variation in curriculum implementation remains 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 Greave Infant School attended 93.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 18.3% 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, 1.9% of pupils at High Greave Infant 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 High Greave Infant School had 15.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 35.5% 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, 41.2% of pupils at High Greave Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% 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 Greave Infant School received £10,253 and spent £9,963 for each of its 99 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £42,000 (-£421 per pupil).

Across all 20 schools of Learners' Trust, income was £8,896 and spending £8,606 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 Rotherham · Rotherham local authority: places and applications

High Greave Infant School is part of Learners' Trust, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

• High Greave Junior School Rotherham
• Catcliffe Primary School Rotherham
• Ridgeway Primary School Sheffield
• Eckington Junior School Sheffield
• New Whittington Community Primary School Chesterfield
• Hodthorpe Primary School Worksop
• Mary Swanwick Primary School Chesterfield
• Brimington Junior School Chesterfield
• Brimington Manor Infant and Nursery School Chesterfield
• Holme Hall Primary School Chesterfield

What is High Greave Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for High Greave Infant School is Good, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was High Greave Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

High Greave Infant School was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does High Greave Infant School have?

High Greave Infant School has 97 pupils on roll.

What age range does High Greave Infant School cover?

High Greave Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is High Greave Infant School?

High Greave Infant School is at High Greave Road, East Herringthorpe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 3LZ.