St Stephen's CofE Primary School

St Stephen's CofE Primary School is an inclusive and successful school where pupils are safe, attend well and behave positively. The inspection found particular strength in attendance and behaviour, early years provision and inclusion. Pupils benefit from warm relationships, consistent routines and effective support, including for those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils. The school's resourced provision for pupils with a visual impairment is used well to help pupils access the curriculum. Safeguarding standards are met.

Strengths

• Pupils attend regularly and attendance is improving, including for pupils with SEND.
• Pupils behave very well and show highly positive attitudes to learning.
• Bullying is very rare and leaders respond quickly and effectively when it occurs.
• Early years provision is calm, well designed and helps children settle and learn.
• Phonics and early mathematics are taught consistently well in early years.
• The school has a highly inclusive culture with tailored support for vulnerable pupils and pupils with SEND.
• Leaders use additional funding effectively to support disadvantaged pupils.
• Pupils' outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics are in line with or above national averages.
• The curriculum is broad, ambitious and well sequenced across subjects.
• Teaching is typically effective and staff have secure subject knowledge.
• Leadership and governance are coherent, with strong trust and governor oversight.
• Staff feel highly valued and supported, and professional development is effective.
• Personal development and wellbeing provision prepares pupils well for life beyond school.
• Pupils enjoy enrichment activities and leadership roles, and all pupils are encouraged to take part.

Areas for Improvement

• Work in wider curriculum subjects is not consistently of high quality.
• Assessment checks are inconsistent, leaving some pupils with gaps in knowledge, particularly in wider curriculum subjects.
• Teaching across wider curriculum subjects is not consistently effective.
• Some pupils do not secure and build subject-specific knowledge and skills as well as they should.

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 St Stephen's CofE Primary School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.1% 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, 0.0% of pupils at St Stephen's CofE 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 St Stephen's CofE Primary School had 22.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.2% 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, 9.7% of pupils at St Stephen's CofE Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 8.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 5 pupils.

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 St Stephen's CofE Primary School received £8,317 and spent £7,845 for each of its 225 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £150,000 (£664 per pupil).

Across all 14 schools of Sdbe Multi-Academy Trust, income was £8,574 and spending £8,660 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 Tandridge · Surrey local authority: places and applications

St Stephen's CofE Primary School is part of Sdbe Multi-Academy Trust, which runs 14 schools. The nearest others:

• St Matthew's CofE Primary School Redhill
• The Minster Junior School Croydon
• The Minster Nursery and Infants Church of England Academy Croydon
• All Saints Carshalton Church of England Primary School Carshalton
• St Michael's Church of England Primary School London
• St Luke's Church of England Primary School London
• St Leonard's Church of England Primary School London
• St George's CofE Primary School London
• Christ Church, Streatham Church of England Primary School London
• St Stephen's CofE Primary School London

What is St Stephen's CofE Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Stephen's CofE Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was St Stephen's CofE Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Stephen's CofE Primary School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does St Stephen's CofE Primary School have?

St Stephen's CofE Primary School has 248 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Stephen's CofE Primary School cover?

St Stephen's CofE Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are St Stephen's CofE Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Stephen's CofE Primary School?

St Stephen's CofE Primary School is at Hunters Chase, South Godstone, Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8HR.