Hurley Primary School

About Hurley Primary School

Hurley Primary School sits within the Warwickshire local authority, a mixed state primary for children aged 4 to 11 under headteacher Matt Hardman. In the local landscape of North Warwickshire, it ranks 12th out of 21 primary schools, placing it in the bottom half of its immediate area. Its top-performing local peers include Mappleborough Green CofE Primary School and St Mary's Catholic Primary School, both of which achieved the highest possible ranking score of 100, alongside Barford St Peter's CofE Primary School with a score of 93. Across the wider Warwickshire authority, which contains 196 primary schools, Hurley ranks 79th, and 12 schools in the county hold an Outstanding rating from Ofsted. The school itself was rated Good in its most recent graded inspection in October 2023, a rating it has held consistently since its previous inspection in 2014, when it was also judged Good overall.

Academically, Hurley's Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year show that 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. This sits just above the Warwickshire local authority average of 62%. In individual subjects, 77% reached the expected standard in reading, 73% in maths, and 80% in writing. At the higher standard, 17% achieved it in reading, 27% in maths, and 7% in writing, though no pupils reached the higher standard across all three subjects. Average scaled scores were 104 in both reading and maths. The school's overall ranking on the KS2 reading, writing and maths expected metric places it in the bottom 50% nationally, at the 50th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within the West Midlands region. Ofsted's inspection breakdown rated all key areas — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — as Good, with no outstanding or requires improvement judgements.

The school operates from a site that includes a sports hall, gymnasium, playing fields, an outdoor playground, music rooms, art studios, a dining hall, and a chapel, as well as a Forest School area. Sports on offer include cricket, athletics, netball, dance, tennis and football, while clubs range from chess and choir to eco club, coding, book club and art club. Hurley has a broad range of SEND provisions, supporting pupils with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. For the 2025/26 intake, the school was oversubscribed: 52 applications were received for 19 places, with all 19 first-preference applicants offered a spot, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.74. With 192 pupils on roll against a capacity of 210, and 31.8% eligible for free school meals, this is a community-focused primary that suits families seeking a Good-rated school with strong SEND support and a wide range of extracurricular activities within Warwickshire.

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