Burnhope Primary School

About Burnhope Primary School

Burnhope Primary School was rated Good in its most recent graded Ofsted inspection, a significant improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating. The school’s most telling academic metric is its Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard, which sits at 56% of pupils. That figure is below the County Durham local authority average of 62%, placing Burnhope 111th out of 170 primary schools in the area and in the bottom 50 nationally. However, the school’s individual subject scores tell a more nuanced story: 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, and 69% did so in both maths and writing. Average scaled scores were 103 in reading and 102 in maths, both just above the national benchmark of 100. The proportion reaching the higher standard was modest — 6% in reading and 13% in both maths and writing — but the school’s progress measures were not available in the data, so it is hard to judge how much value it adds from starting points.

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