Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in County Durham
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry35 applications · 15 places offered · 17 named it first
- 2026 2.3; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2025 2.4; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2024 2.9; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2023 2.8; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 2.6; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2021 2.3; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2020 2.4; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2019 2.8; County Durham median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2018 2.8; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2017 2.7; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2016 1.9; County Durham median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2015 2.0; County Durham median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2014 1.8; County Durham median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- County Durham median
Dashed bars: as Witton-le-Wear Primary School (URN 114067), the previous school.
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 | 15 | 35 | 2.3 | 17 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2025 | 13 | 31 | 2.4 | 13 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 7 | 20 | 2.9 | 5 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2023 | 12 | 34 | 2.8 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 * | 15 | 39 | 2.6 | 21 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2021 * | 14 | 32 | 2.3 | 12 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2020 * | 15 | 36 | 2.4 | 14 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2019 * | 12 | 33 | 2.8 | 10 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2018 * | 10 | 28 | 2.8 | 8 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2017 * | 7 | 19 | 2.7 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 14 | 27 | 1.9 | 18 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2015 * | 9 | 18 | 2.0 | 8 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2014 * | 12 | 22 | 1.8 | 12 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 63% · Writing 94% · Maths 81% → all three 56% 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 | 56% | 13% | 105 | 106 |
| 2023/24 | 75% | 17% | 109 | 105 |
| 2022/23 | 53% | 29% | 108 | 105 |
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
- Witton-le-Wear Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 56%met the SATs standard
- 2.4 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 41%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · County DurhamGood20231.8applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 3.2 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20257.0applications per place
- 3.7 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20242.3applications per place 74%met the SATs standard
- 4.2 km · County DurhamRemains Good20231.7applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 4.5 km · County Durham20262.5applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 4.5 km · County DurhamGood20242.1applications per place
- 4.7 km · County DurhamRemains Good20222.0applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 149499 · 840/2328
- Capacity
- 114 pupils · 114 on roll
- Free school meals
- 11.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 January 2023
- Replaced
- Witton-le-Wear Primary School (URN 114067)
- Address
- Witton-le-Wear Primary School, St James Gardens, Witton-le-Wear, Bishop Auckland, DL14 0BG
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources