Witherley Church of England Primary School

About Witherley Church of England Primary School

Witherley Church of England Primary School holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across its two most recent inspections. The school’s most recent graded inspection, in 2011, rated overall effectiveness as Good, and an ungraded inspection in 2022 confirmed the school remains Good, with leadership, management and early years provision all judged Good. The most telling exam metric comes from the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results: 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits well above the Leicestershire local authority average of 62%, placing Witherley 39th out of 231 primary schools in the county. Within the Hinckley and Bosworth borough, the school ranks 5th out of 29 primaries, putting it in the top 25% nationally for this measure. It’s a strong academic story for a small village school.

Digging deeper into the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, the school’s performance is particularly strong in maths. 88% of pupils reached the expected standard in maths, with an average scaled score of 108, and 44% achieved the higher standard. Reading saw 81% at expected and 38% at the higher level, with an average score of 106. Writing also had 81% at expected, with a quarter reaching the higher standard. Only 6% of pupils hit the higher standard across all three subjects, which is a more selective benchmark. The school has no Progress 8 scores available, so it’s not possible to measure how much value it adds relative to pupils’ starting points, but the raw attainment figures are clearly above the local norm. The school’s ranking score of 75, based on the combined expected standard metric, places it just behind top local performers like Swithland St Leonard’s and Long Whatton.

Witherley is a Church of England primary for mixed pupils aged 5 to 11, with 99 pupils on roll against a capacity of 106. It is oversubscribed: for 2025/26, there were 25 applications for 14 places, with all 14 first-preference applicants offered a spot, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.79. The school has a below-average proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 9.1%. Facilities include an outdoor playground, art studios, an ICT suite, music rooms and a chapel. Sports on offer are netball, rounders, tennis and athletics, and clubs include coding, choir, science club and chess. The school has a range of SEND provisions covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a good fit for families in the Hinckley and Bosworth area who want a small, oversubscribed village primary with solid academic outcomes and a clear Church of England character.

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