Loxley Primary School

Loxley Primary School is an exceptional school where pupils feel safe, valued and proud, and where staff are highly ambitious for all pupils, including those with SEND. Inspectors found outstanding provision across quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years. The school’s curriculum is extremely ambitious and carefully sequenced, and pupils achieve extremely well across all areas. The report highlights excellent behaviour, strong relationships, high-quality reading and phonics teaching, and a superb personal development offer. Children in the early years get off to a flying start, pupils make a significant contribution to the local community, and the school’s work to improve attendance has been recognised nationally. Leaders, governors and trustees are effective and focused on continual improvement, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its first section 5 inspection as an academy. Loxley Primary School is part of Peak Edge Academy Trust, and since September 2024 schools have not been awarded an overall effectiveness grade. No areas for improvement were identified in the report.

Strengths

• Outstanding quality of education with an extremely ambitious and carefully sequenced curriculum
• Pupils achieve extremely well and make strong connections across different areas of learning
• High-quality support for pupils with SEND, including early identification and effective curriculum adaptation
• Reading is a priority, with expert phonics teaching and strong additional intervention
• Children in the early years get off to a flying start through warm relationships and effective language development
• Pupils’ behaviour is excellent and their conduct is exemplary
• The personal development offer is superb, including wide extra-curricular opportunities and community involvement
• Pupils make a significant difference to the local community through volunteering and environmental work
• Attendance work has been recognised nationally and acts as an example for other schools
• Leadership and governance are highly effective, with a shared ambition and careful consideration of staff workload
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

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 Loxley Primary School attended 97.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 1.1% 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 Loxley 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 Loxley Primary School had 22.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.1% 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, 12.6% of pupils at Loxley Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.4% 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 Loxley Primary School received £5,891 and spent £6,001 for each of its 209 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £162,000 (£776 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of Peak Edge, income was £5,609 and spending £5,701 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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Loxley Primary School is part of Peak Edge, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Nook Lane Junior School Sheffield
• Stannington Infant School Sheffield
• Bradfield Dungworth Primary School Sheffield
• Oughtibridge Primary School Sheffield
• Grenoside Community Primary School Sheffield
• Hunter's Bar Junior School Sheffield
• Hunter's Bar Infant School Sheffield
• Greystones Primary School Sheffield
• Wharncliffe Side Primary School and Nursery Sheffield
• Ecclesall Primary School Sheffield

What is Loxley Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Loxley Primary School is Outstanding, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Loxley Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Loxley Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Loxley Primary School have?

Loxley Primary School has 207 pupils on roll.

What age range does Loxley Primary School cover?

Loxley Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 87% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Loxley Primary School?

Loxley Primary School is at Rodney Hill, Loxley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S6 6SG.