Camps Hill Primary School

Camps Hill Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating across most domains, including the quality of education, behaviour, personal development, and leadership. The school has made positive strides since its last inspection, with an ambitious curriculum and a strong focus on reading. Pupils enjoy a supportive atmosphere, engage well in lessons, and participate in various extracurricular activities that develop their social skills and understanding of healthy living. However, the early years provision requires improvement, with specific gaps in the curriculum that hinder children's readiness for Year 1.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy engaging and interesting lessons.
• The curriculum is ambitious and covers a full range of subjects.
• Reading is prioritized effectively, with a well-sequenced phonics curriculum.
• Most pupils with SEND make good progress due to tailored adaptations.
• Pupils show good behaviour and have warm relationships with each other and staff.

Areas for Improvement

• Early years curriculum lacks clarity for foundation subjects.
• Some early years staff lack the expertise to teach effectively.
• Assessment methods in foundation subjects are not fully aligned with the updated 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 Camps Hill Primary School attended 93.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.1% 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, 4.0% of pupils at Camps Hill Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Camps Hill Primary School had 21.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.9% 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, 23.8% of pupils at Camps Hill Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.7% 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 Camps Hill Primary School received £6,917 and spent £6,747 for each of its 467 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £428,000 (£918 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of The Claxton Trust, income was £6,944 and spending £6,865 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 Stevenage · Hertfordshire local authority: places and applications

Camps Hill Primary School is part of The Claxton Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• Fairlands Primary School Stevenage

What is Camps Hill Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Camps Hill Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Camps Hill Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Camps Hill Primary School was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Camps Hill Primary School have?

Camps Hill Primary School has 462 pupils on roll.

What age range does Camps Hill Primary School cover?

Camps Hill Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 50% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Camps Hill Primary School?

Camps Hill Primary School is at Chells Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 0LT.