Earith Primary School

Earith Primary School is a small, welcoming village school within The Active Learning Trust. Inspectors found the school performing securely overall, with safeguarding standards met and pupils happy, safe and well known by staff. Early years provision and personal development and wellbeing are particular strengths, while achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, inclusion, and leadership and governance are all at the expected standard.

Strengths

• Early years provision is strong, helping children settle quickly and become confident, independent learners well prepared for Year 1.
• Personal development and wellbeing are strong, with pupils learning about safety, healthy relationships, democracy and respect for different beliefs and cultures.
• Pupils are happy, feel safe and have positive relationships with staff and each other.
• Attendance is above national averages, including for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND.
• Inclusion is effective, with pupils with SEND generally learning alongside their peers and accessing the same curriculum with appropriate support.
• Behaviour is generally good, and pupils say bullying is uncommon and adults deal with concerns quickly.
• Reading, writing and mathematics are prioritised, and recent outcomes in early years and phonics have improved.
• Leaders have created a caring and ambitious culture, and staff value the support they receive for workload, wellbeing and professional development.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of experiences beyond the classroom, including sport, music, visits, residentials and leadership roles.

Areas for Improvement

• Some aspects of the curriculum are not yet implemented as consistently as leaders intend.
• Leaders are still strengthening how they check what pupils know and can do across the curriculum, and gaps in learning are not always addressed promptly.
• Some pupils still need reminders to remain focused and attentive in lessons.
• Pupils' independence in managing their emotions, behaviour and learning is not yet consistently strong.
• Disadvantaged pupils' outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics are below national averages, with a wide disadvantage gap, including a 42-percentage-point gap in mathematics.

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 Earith Primary School attended 96.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 2.2% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Earith 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 Earith Primary School had 17.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.6% 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, 19.8% of pupils at Earith Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.0% 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 Earith Primary School received £7,219 and spent £8,023 for each of its 106 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £126,000 (£1,192 per pupil).

Across all 18 schools of The Active Learning Trust Limited, income was £8,366 and spending £8,624 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 Huntingdon · Cambridgeshire local authority: places and applications

Earith Primary School is part of The Active Learning Trust Limited, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

• Cromwell Community College Chatteris
• Kingsfield Primary School Chatteris
• Highfield Ely Academy Ely
• Chesterton Primary School Cambridge
• Isle of Ely Primary School Ely
• Neale-Wade Academy March
• Highfield Littleport Academy Ely
• Gusford Community Primary School Ipswich
• Chantry Academy Ipswich
• Hillside Primary School Ipswich

What is Earith Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Earith Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Earith Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Earith Primary School have?

Earith Primary School has 101 pupils on roll.

What age range does Earith Primary School cover?

Earith Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 78% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Earith Primary School?

Earith Primary School is at School Road, Earith, Huntingdon, PE28 3QB.