Temple Normanton Primary Academy

Temple Normanton Junior Academy has demonstrated significant improvement since its previous status as an inadequate school. The community, including pupils, staff, and parents, expresses pride in the school's transformation and its safe and supportive environment. The leadership is effective in ensuring that pupils are eager to learn, and the quality of education across various subjects is rated positively. However, there are areas within the curriculum that require further development to help pupils build on their prior knowledge more effectively.

Strengths

• Strong sense of community pride among pupils, staff, and parents.
• Effective leadership fostering a safe and supportive environment.
• Pupils are eager to learn and behave well.
• Good early years provision with children settling quickly and showing independence.
• Strong focus on reading, with pupils becoming fluent early readers.
• Inclusive approach to teaching pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Broad and well-organized curriculum in physical education.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum not sufficiently coherently planned and sequenced 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 Temple Normanton Primary Academy attended 94.9% 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 Temple Normanton Primary Academy 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 Temple Normanton Primary Academy had 18.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 32.3% 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, 14.2% of pupils at Temple Normanton Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.9% 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 Temple Normanton Primary Academy received £7,630 and spent £7,084 for each of its 107 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £344,000 (£3,217 per pupil).

Across all 12 schools of Aston Community Education Trust, income was £7,762 and spending £7,726 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 Chesterfield · Derbyshire local authority: places and applications

Temple Normanton Primary Academy is part of Aston Community Education Trust, which runs 12 schools. The nearest others:

• Shirebrook Academy Mansfield
• Langwith Bassett Primary Academy Mansfield
• Lowedges Primary Academy Sheffield
• Aston Academy Sheffield
• Springwood Primary Academy Sheffield
• Aughton Primary Academy Sheffield
• Waverley Primary Academy Rotherham
• Thurcroft Junior Academy Rotherham
• Listerdale Primary Academy Rotherham
• Swinton Academy Mexborough

What is Temple Normanton Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Temple Normanton Primary Academy is Good, from an inspection in January 2025.

When was Temple Normanton Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Temple Normanton Primary Academy was last inspected in January 2025.

How many pupils does Temple Normanton Primary Academy have?

Temple Normanton Primary Academy has 106 pupils on roll.

What age range does Temple Normanton Primary Academy cover?

Temple Normanton Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Temple Normanton Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Temple Normanton Primary Academy?

Temple Normanton Primary Academy is at Elm Street, Temple Normanton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S42 5DW.