St George's Primary School

St George’s Primary School is a nurturing, inclusive school where pupils feel safe and are supported to achieve well. Inspectors found a calm and purposeful environment, strong relationships between staff and pupils, and effective pastoral care. The school is closely connected to its community and provides practical support for families, which helps keep absence low. Staff understand pupils’ individual needs, including SEND and English as an additional language, and the school’s focus on oracy supports learning well. The curriculum is well considered and relevant, with particular strengths in reading and early years. Pupils learn to read quickly and confidently, and children in the early years get off to a good start through clear routines and skilful adult modelling. Leaders, including the Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust, have high expectations and a clear understanding of what needs to improve. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. The main areas for improvement are that assessment checks are not consistently precise enough to match work to pupils’ stage of learning, which can limit depth of understanding. In addition, the personal development curriculum does not develop pupils’ understanding of protected characteristics and different faiths as well as it could. Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe, are well nurtured and enjoy coming to school.
• Lessons are calm and productive, with high expectations from staff.
• Staff understand and effectively support pupils with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language.
• Strong pastoral care helps pupils discuss worries and learn about healthy relationships.
• The school is a community hub, offering parenting workshops, literacy sessions and well-being support.
• Work with families helps keep rates of absence low.
• The curriculum is well considered, relevant and supported by staff training.
• Oracy and talk are skilfully woven through the curriculum to support all pupils, especially those new to English.
• Reading is taught well, and pupils develop fluency with effective catch-up support.
• Early years provision helps children settle, play well together and use new vocabulary.
• Leaders and trust staff have high expectations and are considerate of staff workload.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Staff do not consistently check that pupils have understood and remembered what they have been taught.
• Teachers’ explanations or activities are sometimes not closely matched to pupils’ stage of learning, limiting depth of understanding.
• The curriculum does not ensure pupils develop a deep understanding of protected characteristics and people of different faiths.

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 St George's Primary School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.2% 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, 0.0% of pupils at St George's 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 St George's Primary School had 23.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.2% 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, 16.8% of pupils at St George's Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.0% 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 St George's Primary School received £7,633 and spent £7,309 for each of its 232 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £228,000 (£984 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of Thrive Co-Operative Learning Trust, income was £8,330 and spending £7,876 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 Hull · Kingston upon Hull, City of local authority: places and applications

St George's Primary School is part of Thrive Co-Operative Learning Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• The Boulevard Academy Kingston-Upon-Hull
• Chiltern Primary School Hull
• Priory Primary School Hull
• Stepney Primary School Hull
• Kelvin Hall School Hull
• Sidmouth Primary School Hull
• Newland School for Girls Hull
• Ings Primary School Hull
• Oldfleet Primary School Hull

What is St George's Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St George's Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was St George's Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St George's Primary School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does St George's Primary School have?

St George's Primary School has 238 pupils on roll.

What age range does St George's Primary School cover?

St George's Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St George's Primary School?

St George's Primary School is at St George's Road, Hull, HU3 6ED.