Norfolk Community Primary School

Norfolk Community Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a good rating in all inspected areas. The school's leaders have fostered a welcoming and nurturing environment for students, ensuring their safety and wellbeing while promoting high aspirations for academic success. Parents appreciate the dedication and support provided by staff during challenging times. Despite the overall strengths, the school's curriculum lacks depth in some subjects, which affects students' ability to reach ambitious educational goals as they progress through different key stages.

Strengths

• Strong leadership has created a caring and positive school environment.
• Pupils understand the importance of safety and mental health.
• Behaviour has improved significantly, with positive attitudes towards learning.
• Curriculum delivery in subjects like mathematics and history is well-developed.
• Effective support for students with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum planning is underdeveloped in some subjects, impacting learning continuity.
• Inconsistent assessment processes in less developed subjects can lead to knowledge gaps.

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 Norfolk Community Primary School attended 90.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 33.3% 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, 1.5% of pupils at Norfolk Community 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 Norfolk Community Primary School had 19.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 2.5% 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, 21.1% of pupils at Norfolk Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 8 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 Norfolk Community Primary School received £7,724 and spent £7,831 for each of its 443 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £55,000 (£123 per pupil).

Across all 7 schools of Sheffield South East Trust, income was £7,381 and spending £7,615 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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Norfolk Community Primary School is part of Sheffield South East Trust, which runs 7 schools. The nearest others:

• Manor Lodge Community Primary and Nursery School Sheffield
• Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School Sheffield
• Gleadless Primary School Sheffield
• Acres Hill Community Primary School Sheffield
• Phillimore Community Primary School Sheffield
• Woodhouse West Primary School Sheffield

What is Norfolk Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Norfolk Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2022.

When was Norfolk Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Norfolk Community Primary School was last inspected in September 2022.

How many pupils does Norfolk Community Primary School have?

Norfolk Community Primary School has 469 pupils on roll.

What age range does Norfolk Community Primary School cover?

Norfolk Community Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 36% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Norfolk Community Primary School?

Norfolk Community Primary School is at Guildford Avenue, Sheffield, S2 2PJ.