Outwoods Primary School

Outwoods Primary School is performing at the expected standard overall across achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development. Safeguarding standards are met. Inspectors found a welcoming, inclusive school where pupils achieve well, most pupils including disadvantaged pupils reach national outcomes by the end of key stage 2, and pupils with SEND are well supported to progress from their starting points. Pupils are respectful, bullying is rare, and attendance and persistent absence have improved. Leaders know the school well and have strengthened the curriculum, particularly in mathematics and writing, but the wider curriculum is not yet consistently strong across all subjects. Inclusion is a clear strength, although staff are not always precise enough in matching work to pupils' SEND needs. In the early years, children are well prepared for Year 1, but high-quality language interactions are not consistently maximised. The school is part of Co-operative Central Learning Trust, is larger than average, and has close-to-average proportions of disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve well and most, including disadvantaged pupils, reach national outcomes by the end of key stage 2.
• Pupils with SEND are well supported through curriculum adaptations and make progress from their starting points.
• Reading, writing and mathematics core skills are taught well from the early years.
• Leaders prioritise attendance, and persistent absence has improved to close to national levels.
• Pupils are highly respectful, and bullying and discriminatory behaviour are rare.
• The curriculum is well sequenced, broad and balanced, with staff subject knowledge generally strong.
• Early years provision is well sequenced and children are well prepared for Year 1.
• The school has an inclusive culture with high expectations for vulnerable pupils.
• Leadership and governance are effective, reflective and ambitious, with strong staff support.
• Personal development is rich, responsive and promotes pupils' wellbeing, values and diversity.
• Wider opportunities, including trips, clubs and leadership roles, are accessible regardless of finance.
• Safeguarding standards are met and there is an open safeguarding culture.

Areas for Improvement

• The wider curriculum is not yet consistently taught well across all subjects.
• Some wider curriculum subjects are at earlier stages of design.
• Staff are not always clear enough about pupils' SEND needs, so learning is not always precisely matched.
• At times, activities are not precisely matched to learning needs, limiting progress for some pupils.
• High-quality language interactions in the early years are not consistently maximised for all children.

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 Outwoods Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.5% 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 Outwoods 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 Outwoods Primary School had 20.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.1% 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, 19.1% of pupils at Outwoods Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.6% 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 Outwoods Primary School received £6,777 and spent £6,677 for each of its 427 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £160,000 (£376 per pupil).

Across all 9 schools of Central Co-Operative Learning Trust, income was £6,831 and spending £6,583 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 Burton-On-Trent · Staffordshire local authority: places and applications

Outwoods Primary School is part of Central Co-Operative Learning Trust, which runs 9 schools. The nearest others:

• Burton Fields School Burton-On-Trent
• John of Rolleston Primary School Burton-On-Trent
• Grange School Burton-On-Trent
• William Shrewsbury Primary School Burton-On-Trent
• Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School Rugeley
• Brownhills West Primary School Walsall
• Greenfield Primary School Walsall
• Blackwood School Sutton Coldfield

What is Outwoods Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Outwoods Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Outwoods Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Outwoods Primary School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Outwoods Primary School have?

Outwoods Primary School has 434 pupils on roll.

What age range does Outwoods Primary School cover?

Outwoods Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Outwoods Primary School?

Outwoods Primary School is at Harehedge Lane, Horninglow, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 0AS.