Kingsway Community Primary School

Kingsway Community Primary School, which has not been inspected previously under section 5, has received a 'Good' rating across all domains including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school fosters a warm and caring environment where respect is central to its ethos, and pupils demonstrate positive attitudes towards learning. While the school is praised for its ambitious curriculum and effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), there are still some challenges, particularly concerning pupil attendance and ensuring all learners can access tasks based on their prior knowledge.

Strengths

• Warm and welcoming environment for all pupils
• High expectations for pupil behaviour and achievement
• Ambitious and well-organised curriculum
• Strong support for pupils with SEND
• Effective teaching of phonics leading to fluent reading
• Engaging early years provision
• Active citizenship and involvement in school life
• Positive engagement with parents and carers

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent access to work due to inadequate prerequisite knowledge
• Too many pupils missing school regularly

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 Kingsway Community Primary School attended 90.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 29.8% 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, 3.0% of pupils at Kingsway Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Kingsway Community Primary School had 19.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 30.0% 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, 26.8% of pupils at Kingsway Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.5% 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 Kingsway Community Primary School received £7,150 and spent £7,096 for each of its 203 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £338,000 (£1,664 per pupil).

Across all 17 schools of Community Academies Trust, income was £7,309 and spending £7,301 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 Leamington Spa · Warwickshire local authority: places and applications

Kingsway Community Primary School is part of Community Academies Trust, which runs 17 schools. The nearest others:

• Heathcote Primary School Warwick
• Woodloes Primary School Warwick
• Budbrooke Primary School Warwick
• Stratford-Upon-Avon Primary School Stratford-Upon-Avon
• Wood End Primary School Atherstone
• Dordon Primary School Tamworth
• Birchwood Primary School Tamworth
• The Polesworth School Tamworth
• The Wilnecote School Tamworth
• Stoneydelph Primary School Tamworth

What is Kingsway Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Kingsway Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in October 2023.

When was Kingsway Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Kingsway Community Primary School was last inspected in October 2023.

How many pupils does Kingsway Community Primary School have?

Kingsway Community Primary School has 179 pupils on roll.

What age range does Kingsway Community Primary School cover?

Kingsway Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 32% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Kingsway Community Primary School?

Kingsway Community Primary School is at Baker Avenue, Leamington Spa, CV31 3HB.