Langdale Primary School

Langdale Primary School demonstrates a good standard of overall effectiveness, with notable strengths in behaviour, attitudes, and early years provision, both assessed as outstanding. The school cultivates an environment where pupils feel valued and respected, contributing positively to their learning experiences and achievements. Leaders actively engage with various challenges, including addressing previous dips in progress within reading and mathematics, showing significant improvement and commitment to enhancing educational outcomes for all students, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). This marks the school’s first inspection under section 5 of the Education Act 2005, indicating their new status within the Creative Learning Partnership Trust.

Strengths

• Outstanding behaviour and attitudes of pupils
• Strong leadership and dedicated staff
• Exceptional early years provision
• Pupils achieve well across all year groups
• Effective support for pupils with additional needs
• High expectations set for pupils leading to positive outcomes

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent use of subject monitoring data impacting curriculum adaptations

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 Langdale Primary School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.8% 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, 1.1% of pupils at Langdale 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 Langdale Primary School had 29.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.3% 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, 13.6% of pupils at Langdale Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.4% 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 Langdale Primary School received £7,372 and spent £7,259 for each of its 360 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £103,000 (£286 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of The Creative Learning Partnership Trust, income was £8,526 and spending £8,368 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 Newcastle · Staffordshire local authority: places and applications

Langdale Primary School is part of The Creative Learning Partnership Trust, which runs 11 schools. The nearest others:

• Hempstalls Primary School Newcastle
• Thursfield Primary School Stoke-On-Trent
• Manor Hill First School Stone
• James Bateman Middle School Biddulph
• Green Lea First School Stafford
• Beaconfields Primary School Stafford
• Parkside Primary School Stafford
• Greenhall Stafford
• Doxey Academy Stafford
• Burleyfields Primary School Stafford

What is Langdale Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Langdale Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2024.

When was Langdale Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Langdale Primary School was last inspected in September 2024.

How many pupils does Langdale Primary School have?

Langdale Primary School has 411 pupils on roll.

What age range does Langdale Primary School cover?

Langdale Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Langdale Primary School?

Langdale Primary School is at Langdale Road, Clayton, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 3QE.