Churchfields Primary School

Churchfields Primary School is performing well overall, consistently demonstrating good quality education, positive behaviour, and outstanding personal development. With a strong community spirit, pupils, staff, and parents express pride in their school. The curriculum is ambitious and effectively sequenced, ensuring pupils of all abilities, including those with SEND, are well supported in their learning. However, specific challenges remain in effectively catering for pupils with complex needs in the ARC, as well as timely support for weaker readers.

Strengths

• Strong community spirit with high levels of pride among pupils, staff, and parents
• Impressive provision for personal development underpinned by core values
• Ambitious and well-structured curriculum that exceeds national expectations
• Positive attitudes to learning and high expectations for behaviour
• Effective integration of SEND pupils into mainstream education

Areas for Improvement

• Insufficiently targeted curriculum delivery for pupils with severe and complex needs in the ARC
• Recent delays in providing timely support for the weakest readers

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 Churchfields Primary School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.0% 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 Churchfields 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 Churchfields Primary School had 19.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 17.9% 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, 12.7% of pupils at Churchfields Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 15 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 Churchfields Primary School received £8,186 and spent £8,374 for each of its 489 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £235,000 (£481 per pupil).

Across all 5 schools of Quality First Education Trust, income was £9,130 and spending £9,042 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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Churchfields Primary School is part of Quality First Education Trust, which runs 5 schools. The nearest others:

• Belleville Wix Academy London
• Belleville Primary School London
• New King's Road School London
• The Alton School London

What is Churchfields Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Churchfields Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2023.

When was Churchfields Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Churchfields Primary School was last inspected in November 2023.

How many pupils does Churchfields Primary School have?

Churchfields Primary School has 480 pupils on roll.

What age range does Churchfields Primary School cover?

Churchfields Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

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

Where is Churchfields Primary School?

Churchfields Primary School is at Churchfields Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 4QY.