Langold Dyscarr Community School

Langold Dyscarr Community School has been recognized for its overall good performance, especially in providing quality education across various domains. The school shows strong leadership and management, effective personal development programs, and a positive community atmosphere with high expectations for student behavior and achievement. Parents and pupils express pride in the school's achievements and community involvement. However, this has marked the first inspection since the school's conversion to an academy, which makes the strong performance even more notable, as it builds on a previous inadequate judgment of the predecessor institution.

Strengths

• School has high expectations for pupils' behavior and achievement.
• Reading is prioritized with a well-organized phonics program.
• Curriculum is well planned and sequenced in most subjects.
• Early years provision is good with clear routines and engaging activities.
• Pupils with special educational needs receive appropriate support.
• Community involvement through projects like the school allotment.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects lack full planning and sequencing.
• Assessment of outdoor activities in early years is insufficient.
• Leaders do not consistently understand early years curriculum beginnings.
• Derogatory, homophobic language occasionally goes unchallenged.

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 Langold Dyscarr Community School attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.5% 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, 3.6% of pupils at Langold Dyscarr Community 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 Langold Dyscarr Community School had 20.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 12.0% of pupils at Langold Dyscarr Community School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.8% 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 Langold Dyscarr Community School received £6,497 and spent £5,841 for each of its 294 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £250,000 (£851 per pupil).

Across all 14 schools of Aspire and Shine Education Trust, income was £7,155 and spending £6,954 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 Worksop · Nottinghamshire local authority: places and applications

Langold Dyscarr Community School is part of Aspire and Shine Education Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Ranskill Primary School Retford
• Oak Tree Primary School Mansfield
• Kirkby Woodhouse School Nottingham
• Muskham Primary School Newark
• Sir John Sherbrooke Junior School Nottingham
• Ironville and Codnor Park Primary School Ironville
• Winthorpe Primary School Newark
• John Hunt Academy Newark
• Gunthorpe CofE Primary School Nottingham
• Whitemoor Academy (Primary and Nursery) Nottingham

What is Langold Dyscarr Community School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Langold Dyscarr Community School is Good, from an inspection in November 2023.

When was Langold Dyscarr Community School last inspected by Ofsted?

Langold Dyscarr Community School was last inspected in November 2023.

How many pupils does Langold Dyscarr Community School have?

Langold Dyscarr Community School has 334 pupils on roll.

What age range does Langold Dyscarr Community School cover?

Langold Dyscarr Community School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Langold Dyscarr Community School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 38% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Langold Dyscarr Community School?

Langold Dyscarr Community School is at School Road, Langold, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S81 9PX.