Westminster Community Primary School

Westminster Community Primary School demonstrates a strong overall performance, achieving a 'Good' rating in all evaluated areas, including the quality of education, behavior and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school benefits from a supportive environment where pupils feel welcomed and valued, leading to effective learning and personal growth. Additionally, the school's curriculum is ambitious and thoughtfully structured, allowing for effective teaching and learning across various subjects. This is the school's first inspection since becoming an academy in May 2022 and demonstrates significant progress since its prior evaluations.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy a friendly and inclusive atmosphere.
• The school implements a well-structured phonics program in early years.
• Pupils receive effective support tailored to their individual needs, including those with SEND.
• Staff are well-trained and supported by the trust to deliver the curriculum.
• Pupils engage positively in their learning and behavior is well-managed.
• The school prioritizes pupil well-being and offers various extracurricular activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Some older pupils do not practice their reading often enough, affecting their fluency and confidence.
• Oversight of curriculum delivery in a few subjects is underdeveloped, limiting recognition of staff expertise gaps.

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 Westminster Community Primary School attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 24.5% 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, 1.4% of pupils at Westminster 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 Westminster Community Primary School had 19.4 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, 23.8% of pupils at Westminster Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.6% 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 Westminster Community Primary School received £8,641 and spent £8,426 for each of its 147 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £83,000 (£563 per pupil).

Across all 6 schools of Weaver Trust Limited, income was £7,638 and spending £7,605 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 Ellesmere Port · Cheshire West and Chester local authority: places and applications

Westminster Community Primary School is part of Weaver Trust Limited, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary School Runcorn
• Barnton Community Nursery and Primary School Northwich
• Comberbach Nursery and Primary School Northwich
• Grange Community Nursery and Primary School Winsford
• Leftwich Community Primary School Northwich

What is Westminster Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Westminster Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Westminster Community Primary School was last inspected in September 2024.

How many pupils does Westminster Community Primary School have?

Westminster Community Primary School has 151 pupils on roll.

What age range does Westminster Community Primary School cover?

Westminster Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 61% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Westminster Community Primary School?

Westminster Community Primary School is at John Street, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH65 2ED.