Levendale Primary School

Levendale Primary School has been recognized for its strong overall performance, achieving good ratings across all key areas, including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school fosters a positive and engaging learning environment where pupils feel safe and supported, contributing to their enthusiasm for learning and strong relationships among peers. However, the school's curriculum implementation is inconsistent in some subjects, which poses a challenge to ensuring all pupils achieve a deep understanding of content across their studies.

Strengths

• Pupils exhibit high enthusiasm and positive attitudes towards learning.
• Effective leadership promotes a supportive school environment.
• Strong relationships between staff and pupils foster mutual respect.
• High performance in early reading and structured phonics program.
• Strong extracurricular offerings, including varied clubs and activities.
• Proactive approach to safeguarding with effective measures in place.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent teaching of the curriculum across subjects, notably in history.
• Some pupils do not achieve a good depth of knowledge in all subjects.

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 Levendale Primary School attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 5.5% 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, 0.5% of pupils at Levendale 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 Levendale Primary School had 24.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.6% 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, 11.9% of pupils at Levendale Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% 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 Levendale Primary School received £6,860 and spent £6,643 for each of its 190 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £162,000 (£856 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of Spark Education Trust, income was £7,398 and spending £7,254 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 Yarm · Stockton-on-Tees local authority: places and applications

Levendale Primary School is part of Spark Education Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Conyers School Yarm
• Layfield Primary School Yarm
• Egglescliffe School Stockton-On-Tees
• The Links Primary School Stockton-On-Tees
• Junction Farm Primary School Stockton-On-Tees
• Kirklevington Primary School Yarm
• Whinstone Primary School Stockton-On-Tees
• Bader Primary School Stockton-On-Tees
• Whitehouse Primary School Stockton-On-Tees
• Chandlers Ridge Academy Middlesbrough

What is Levendale Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Levendale Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Levendale Primary School was last inspected in July 2023.

How many pupils does Levendale Primary School have?

Levendale Primary School has 193 pupils on roll.

What age range does Levendale Primary School cover?

Levendale Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Levendale Primary School?

Levendale Primary School is at Mount Leven Road, Yarm, North Yorkshire, TS15 9RJ.