Mountbatten Primary School

Mountbatten Primary School is a caring and inclusive school in Hull, part of Venn Academy Trust. It serves around 280 pupils, with a well-above-average proportion eligible for free school meals and high location deprivation. Safeguarding standards are met, and inclusion is a relative strength: leaders are committed to supporting pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils, use additional funding strategically, and have built strong relationships with families and external agencies. Pupils feel safe, cared for and a sense of belonging, attendance is improving, and phonics outcomes are broadly in line with national standards. However, the school is not yet performing consistently well across the curriculum. Most areas reviewed need attention. Over time, Year 6 outcomes have typically been below national averages, and pupils, especially those with SEND, do not secure handwriting and spelling skills quickly enough. Assessment is not used sharply enough to address gaps in knowledge, and pupils do not remember enough in wider subjects. In the early years, Reception children's independent tasks are often poorly matched to their needs, and some struggle with letter formation and applying phonics to reading. There are also concerns about pupils' understanding of British values and protected characteristics, with some derogatory language becoming normalised and some pupils showing disrespectful views. Leaders' self-evaluation is overly generous, and monitoring in wider areas such as personal development is not precise enough, so improvement in those areas is slower. The trust provides strong support, governance and safeguarding oversight are particular strengths, and staff morale is positive, but leaders need to sharpen assessment, monitoring, early years provision and personal development to secure better outcomes for all pupils.

Strengths

• Safeguarding standards are met, with strong governance oversight.
• Leaders are deeply committed to inclusion for pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils.
• The SEND coordinator knows pupils well and works closely with families, teachers and external agencies.
• Support plans for pupils with SEND are regularly reviewed and typically effective.
• Additional funding is used strategically to support disadvantaged pupils academically and to widen access to opportunities.
• Recent curriculum changes have improved Year 6 outcomes rapidly.
• Phonics achievement in the Year 1 screening check is in line with national standards.
• Attendance is improving rapidly, with decisive leadership and tenacious follow-up.
• Pupils generally behave well, and staff usually apply behaviour expectations consistently.
• Leaders take swift and effective action on behavioural incidents, including bullying.
• The early years curriculum is well structured and supports communication and language well.
• Early years routines build independence and create a calm, purposeful environment.
• Trust support and targeted professional development are strengthening teaching and SEND provision.
• Governance and safeguarding oversight are particular strengths.
• Staff are proud to work at the school, morale is positive and workload is managed considerately.
• Pupils learn how to stay safe online through a suitable PSHE curriculum.
• Wellbeing support and therapeutic opportunities help pupils with emotional or social difficulties.
• Pupils access a wide range of experiences through the Mountbatten 50, clubs, sports and residential visits.
• Pupils feel safe, cared for and a sense of belonging.
• Pupils can develop leadership skills through roles such as school councillors and ambassadors.

Areas for Improvement

• Historic Year 6 outcomes have typically been below national averages.
• Pupils, especially those with SEND, do not secure handwriting and spelling skills quickly enough.
• Handwriting and spelling difficulties persist into key stage 2 and lower the quality of pupils' work.
• Staff do not ensure pupils apply phonics knowledge precisely enough in spelling.
• Pupils do not remember enough content across wider subjects such as geography, history and religious education.
• Assessment information is not used consistently to identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge.
• Teachers' checks on learning do not always accurately inform next steps, so misunderstandings persist.
• Children in Reception are not developing suitably detailed knowledge across the curriculum.
• Many Reception children struggle to form letters correctly and to apply phonics to read words.
• Reception independent tasks are often not well matched to children's needs or intended outcomes.
• Pupils' understanding of British values and protected characteristics is underdeveloped.
• Some pupils show disrespectful views and use derogatory language, including language linked to sexual orientation.
• Leaders' evaluation of the school is overly generous.
• Monitoring in wider areas, such as personal development, does not identify issues with enough precision.
• Improvement in some wider aspects of the school's work is less rapid because monitoring is imprecise.
• Overall absence remains above the national average, although it is improving.
• Disadvantaged pupils' reading and mathematics outcomes remain below national non-disadvantaged benchmarks over the latest three years.

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 Mountbatten Primary School attended 93.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.2% 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, 0.7% of pupils at Mountbatten 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 Mountbatten Primary School had 29.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 28.8% 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, 19.5% of pupils at Mountbatten Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% 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 Mountbatten Primary School received £7,930 and spent £8,558 for each of its 271 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £343,000 (£1,268 per pupil).

Across all 11 schools of Venn Academy Trust, income was £11,101 and spending £11,467 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

Mountbatten Primary School is part of Venn Academy Trust, which runs 11 schools. The nearest others:

• Griffin Primary School Hull
• Thorpepark Academy Hull
• Bridgeview Special School Kingston-Upon-Hull
• Marshland Primary Academy Doncaster
• Brooke Primary Academy Doncaster
• Brompton Hall School Scarborough
• Adwick Primary School Doncaster
• New Pastures Primary School Mexborough
• Milton School Mexborough
• Newman School Rotherham

What is Mountbatten Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Mountbatten Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in July 2026.

When was Mountbatten Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Mountbatten Primary School was last inspected in July 2026.

How many pupils does Mountbatten Primary School have?

Mountbatten Primary School has 272 pupils on roll.

What age range does Mountbatten Primary School cover?

Mountbatten Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Mountbatten Primary School?

Mountbatten Primary School is at Wivern Road, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU9 4HR.