Claybrooke Primary School

Claybrooke Primary School has shown significant improvement since its last inspection and is now categorized as good overall. The school provides a safe and supportive environment where staff care about their pupils as individuals, ensuring they get the necessary help when needed. The curriculum is well-designed and ambitious, allowing most students, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to excel academically. Furthermore, the school's community involvement and efforts to engage families in education have been notably strengthened.

Strengths

• Strong community involvement with families engaged in their child's education.
• Well-designed and ambitious curriculum tailored to meet students' needs.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Good quality training for teachers enhancing their instructional skills.
• Positive relationships fostered between pupils and staff, contributing to a harmonious school environment.

Areas for Improvement

• Attendance rates remain below national averages and need improvement.
• Some teachers occasionally move on from learning before pupils are fully ready, affecting knowledge retention.

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 Claybrooke Primary School attended 86.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 40.5% 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, 1.4% of pupils at Claybrooke 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 Claybrooke Primary School had 17.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 21.7% 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, 18.8% of pupils at Claybrooke Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.2% 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 Claybrooke Primary School received £7,685 and spent £7,731 for each of its 73 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £45,000 (£620 per pupil).

Across all 9 schools of Inspiring Primaries Academy Trust, income was £6,962 and spending £6,746 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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Claybrooke Primary School is part of Inspiring Primaries Academy Trust, which runs 9 schools. The nearest others:

• Ullesthorpe Church of England Primary School Lutterworth
• Sharnford Church of England Primary School Hinckley
• St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Bitteswell Lutterworth
• All Saints Church of England Primary School, Sapcote Leicester
• Dunton Bassett Primary School Lutterworth
• John Wycliffe Primary School Lutterworth
• Gilmorton Chandler Church of England Primary School Lutterworth
• St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, Stoke Golding Nuneaton

What is Claybrooke Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Claybrooke Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2023.

When was Claybrooke Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Claybrooke Primary School was last inspected in December 2023.

How many pupils does Claybrooke Primary School have?

Claybrooke Primary School has 64 pupils on roll.

What age range does Claybrooke Primary School cover?

Claybrooke Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Claybrooke Primary School?

Claybrooke Primary School is at Main Street, Claybrooke Parva, Lutterworth, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE17 5AF.