Witton-le-Wear Primary School
Ofsted: Not judgedAcademy converter · Primary
Bishop Auckland · DL14 0BG · County Durham
Ages 2–11
- KS275%
- Absence4.7%
- FSM11.5%
- Demand0.71
2.0 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: Not judgedURN 114053
Hamsterley Primary School
Community school · Bishop Auckland · DL13 3QF
Ages 4–11 · 36 pupils · County Durham
Ofsted
Not judged
KS2 expected (RWM)
14%
Overall absence
6.5%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-07-08
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- 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)
Expected standard (RWM)14%
Higher standard (RWM)0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 96.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 102.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.5%
Persistent absence (10%+)22.2%
Unauthorised1.0%
- Authorised absence
- 5.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 27
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
4
Places offered
4
1st-preference offers
4
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 5
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 4
- 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).
Capacity fill73%
36 pupils · 49 places
- Pupils on roll
- 36
- Boys / girls
- 22 / 14
- School capacity
- 49
- Capacity fill
- 36 / 49 (73%)
- Free school meals
- 16.7%
- FSM pupils
- 6
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Federation
- Durham Dales Partnership
- Headteacher
- Sarah Hodgkinson and Richard Sains (Co Executive Headteachers)
Location
- Address
- Hamsterley Primary School, Hamsterley
- Postcode
- DL13 3QF
- Town
- Bishop Auckland
- County
- County Durham
- Local authority
- County Durham
- District
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, 36 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 16.7%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Sarah Hodgkinson and Richard Sains (Co Executive Headteachers)
- Telephone
- 01388488279