Brighstone Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school · Newport · PO30 4BB
Ages 4–11 · 97 pupils · Isle of Wight
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
43%
Overall absence
6.7%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-02-06
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 5.9%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 71
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
10
Places offered
10
1st-preference offers
10
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 19
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 10
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
97 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 97
- Boys / girls
- 55 / 42
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 97 / 105 (92%)
- Free school meals
- 23.7%
- FSM pupils
- 23
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Portsmouth (ce)
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary aided school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Rebecca Lennon
Location
- Address
- New Road, Brighstone
- Postcode
- PO30 4BB
- Town
- Newport
- County
- Isle of Wight
- Local authority
- Isle of Wight
- District
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
SEN & specialist provision
As recorded in GIAS — provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
- Resourced places
- 1 on roll / 12 capacity
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed voluntary aided school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Newport, Isle of Wight, 97 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 23.7%. SEN provision includes: SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Portsmouth (ce).
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Rebecca Lennon
- Telephone
- 01983740285