Walton Holymoorside Primary School

Walton Holymoorside Primary School has demonstrated a good overall performance across key areas, being marked as good in the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This is the school's first inspection, having not been assessed since converting to an academy in 2019. During the inspection, pupils expressed a strong sense of belonging and enthusiasm for learning, reflecting a positive school culture fostered by caring staff and supportive governance through the Learners’ Trust.

Strengths

• Pupils are enthusiastic and feel happy at school.
• Strong relationships and respectful interactions among pupils and staff.
• The curriculum is broad and interesting, with a focus on key knowledge.
• Reading is a top priority, with effective phonics instruction.
• The school quickly identifies and supports pupils with SEND.
• A strong approach to promoting personal development and healthy relationships.
• Staff well-being and workload are prioritized.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, assessment of pupils' learning is not well established.
• SEND support documents lack precision, impacting achievement for some pupils.

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 Walton Holymoorside Primary School attended 97.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 5.4% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Walton Holymoorside 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 Walton Holymoorside Primary School had 23.9 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, 4.7% of pupils at Walton Holymoorside Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.4% 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 Walton Holymoorside Primary School received £5,925 and spent £6,298 for each of its 363 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £20,000 (£54 per pupil).

Across all 20 schools of Learners' Trust, income was £8,896 and spending £8,606 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 Chesterfield · Derbyshire local authority: places and applications

Walton Holymoorside Primary School is part of Learners' Trust, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

• Westfield Infant School Chesterfield
• Old Hall Junior School Chesterfield
• Holme Hall Primary School Chesterfield
• Ashgate Croft School Chesterfield
• Mary Swanwick Primary School Chesterfield
• Brimington Manor Infant and Nursery School Chesterfield
• Brimington Junior School Chesterfield
• New Whittington Community Primary School Chesterfield
• Eckington Junior School Sheffield
• Ridgeway Primary School Sheffield

What is Walton Holymoorside Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Walton Holymoorside Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2023.

When was Walton Holymoorside Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Walton Holymoorside Primary School was last inspected in December 2023.

How many pupils does Walton Holymoorside Primary School have?

Walton Holymoorside Primary School has 379 pupils on roll.

What age range does Walton Holymoorside Primary School cover?

Walton Holymoorside Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 82% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Walton Holymoorside Primary School?

Walton Holymoorside Primary School is at Holymoor Road, Holymoorside, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S42 7DU.