Beech Hill Primary School

Beech Hill Primary School has demonstrated overall good performance, with notable strengths in behaviour and personal development, which have been rated outstanding. This is the first routine inspection since the school's conversion to an academy and the prolonged gap since its last inspection. The school promotes a strong sense of community, where pupils feel happy, safe, and included. Leaders are attentive to the needs of pupils, particularly those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring their full participation in school life. While the school exhibits positive engagement and a strong curriculum foundation, areas for further development remain, particularly in ensuring deep understanding in some subjects.

Strengths

• Pupils exhibit exemplary behaviour and are highly engaged in lessons.
• Strong sense of community where pupils feel valued and secure.
• Leaders provide effective support for pupils with SEND.
• Outstanding leadership in promoting personal development.
• Effective phonics programme supports reading fluency.

Areas for Improvement

• Insufficient opportunities for pupils to deepen understanding of important concepts 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 Beech Hill Primary School attended 93.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 22.0% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Beech Hill 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 Beech Hill Primary School had 20.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.1% 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, 20.0% of pupils at Beech Hill Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.9% 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 Beech Hill Primary School received £7,630 and spent £7,125 for each of its 427 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £441,000 (£1,033 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of Valour Multi-Academy Trust, income was £7,693 and spending £7,570 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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Beech Hill Primary School is part of Valour Multi-Academy Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• Walbottle Village Primary School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

What is Beech Hill Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beech Hill Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Beech Hill Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beech Hill Primary School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Beech Hill Primary School have?

Beech Hill Primary School has 441 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beech Hill Primary School cover?

Beech Hill Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Beech Hill Primary School?

Beech Hill Primary School is at Linhope Road, West Denton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE5 2LW.