NCEA Bishop's Primary School

About NCEA Bishop's Primary School

NCEA Bishop's Primary School sits in a tricky spot when you compare its headline Key Stage 2 results against the Northumberland average for primary schools. Just 48% of its pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is eight percentage points below the local authority average of 56%. That gap is worth paying attention to, especially given the school serves a community where 39% of pupils are eligible for free school meals — well above the national average. In the Northumberland rankings, the school places 37th out of 58 primaries, putting it in the bottom half of the local league table. Nationally, it sits in the 82nd percentile, which means roughly four in five schools across England outperform it on this particular measure. The picture isn't uniformly weak, though. In reading, 72% of pupils met the expected standard and 21% reached the higher bar, while in maths 67% hit the expected level and 10% achieved greater depth. The school's average scaled scores — 103 in reading and 102 in maths — are both in line with the national average of 100, suggesting the headline combined figure is being pulled down by writing, where only 62% met expectations and just 7% reached the higher standard.

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