Report card · inspected Dec 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in County Durham
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Expected standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Needs attention | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Expected standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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Inspection history
- 9 December 2025Report card · 6 Expected standard, 1 Needs attention
- 14 September 2021Graded inspection: Good
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry44 applications · 27 places offered · 27 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.6; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2025 1.6; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2024 1.7; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2023 1.4; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 1.7; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2021 1.5; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2020 1.7; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2019 2.1; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2018 1.8; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2017 1.8; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2016 1.4; County Durham median median 1.5
- 2015 1.2; County Durham median median 1.6
- This school
- County Durham median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 27 | 44 | 1.6 | 27 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 31 | 48 | 1.6 | 31 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 23 | 39 | 1.7 | 23 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 41 | 1.4 | 26 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2022 | 21 | 36 | 1.7 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 28 | 43 | 1.5 | 26 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2020 | 24 | 41 | 1.7 | 23 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2019 | 26 | 55 | 2.1 | 24 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2018 | 39 | 71 | 1.8 | 39 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 40 | 70 | 1.8 | 37 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2016 | 43 | 62 | 1.4 | 39 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2015 | 33 | 41 | 1.2 | 30 | 0.91 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 71% · Writing 76% · Maths 74% → all three 66% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- County Durham median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 66% | 5% | 105 | 104 |
| 2023/24 | 44% | 10% | 102 | 100 |
| 2022/23 | 65% | 0% | 105 | 103 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Chester-Le-Street CofE (Controlled) Primary SchoolThis schoolThis school20251.6applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · County DurhamGood20241.3applications per place 94%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · County DurhamStandards maintained20242.2applications per place 74%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · County DurhamGood20232.0applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 1.7 km · County DurhamNot yet inspected1.9applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · County DurhamGood20232.9applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 2.3 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 2.6 km · County DurhamGood20241.5applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
School details
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 114213 · 840/3031
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 418 pupils · 260 on roll
- Free school meals
- 23.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Address
- Hilda Park, Chester le Street, DH2 2JT
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources