Alsager Highfields Community Primary School

Alsager Highfields Community Primary School has been evaluated as good overall in its first inspection since it opened. The school's leadership has established a nurturing environment where pupils feel valued and safe, fostering positive relationships between staff, students, and families. Pupils enjoy a broad curriculum and exhibit good behavior, with older students supporting younger peers, which reinforces the school's caring ethos. While the school offers strong support for pupils with special educational needs, it is recognized that some subjects, like computing, need further development to ensure a comprehensive understanding of essential learning.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between staff, pupils, and families.
• Positive and safe school environment.
• High expectations of pupil performance and behavior.
• Broad and ambitious curriculum.
• Effective assessment practices to support pupil learning.
• Strong support for pupils with special educational needs.
• Well-managed behavior and positive attitudes towards learning.
• Well-used library that promotes a love of reading.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum for some subjects, like computing, is less well developed.
• Essential learning not clearly outlined in some subjects.
• Some subject leaders have not acted on their monitoring findings.

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 Alsager Highfields Community Primary School attended 95.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.8% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Alsager Highfields Community 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 Alsager Highfields Community Primary School had 23.7 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, 5.4% of pupils at Alsager Highfields Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.3% 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 Alsager Highfields Community Primary School received £6,503 and spent £6,709 for each of its 213 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £154,000 (£725 per pupil).

Across all 7 schools of The Cornovii Trust, income was £7,309 and spending £7,287 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 Stoke-On-Trent · Cheshire East local authority: places and applications

Alsager Highfields Community Primary School is part of The Cornovii Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Alsager School Stoke-On-Trent
• Weston Village Primary School Crewe
• Pear Tree Primary School Nantwich
• Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School Nantwich
• Brine Leas School Nantwich
• Malbank School and Sixth Form College Nantwich
• Audlem St James' CofE Primary School Crewe

What is Alsager Highfields Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Alsager Highfields Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Alsager Highfields Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Alsager Highfields Community Primary School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Alsager Highfields Community Primary School have?

Alsager Highfields Community Primary School has 223 pupils on roll.

What age range does Alsager Highfields Community Primary School cover?

Alsager Highfields Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Alsager Highfields Community Primary School?

Alsager Highfields Community Primary School is at Fairview Avenue, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 2NW.