Shipley CofE Primary School
Ofsted: School remains GoodVoluntary controlled school · Primary
Horsham · RH13 8PL · West Sussex
Ages 4–11
- KS254%
- Absence7.8%
- FSM9.1%
- Demand1.00
1.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: Requires improvementURN 126002
William Penn School
Voluntary controlled school · Horsham · RH13 8GR
Ages 4–11 · 84 pupils · West Sussex
Ofsted
Requires improvement
KS2 expected (RWM)
55%
Overall absence
6.9%
Admissions demand
0.90 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2024-07-09
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)55%
Higher standard (RWM)0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.9%
Persistent absence (10%+)22.6%
Unauthorised2.0%
- Authorised absence
- 4.9%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 84
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
0.90 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
9
Places offered
10
1st-preference offers
9
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 46
- 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).
Capacity fill80%
84 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 84
- Boys / girls
- 44 / 40
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 84 / 105 (80%)
- Free school meals
- 11.9%
- FSM pupils
- 10
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Quaker
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary controlled school
- Headteacher
- Mr Colin Brookes
Location
- Address
- Brooks Green Road, Coolham
- Postcode
- RH13 8GR
- Town
- Horsham
- County
- West Sussex
- Local authority
- West Sussex
- District
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham
- 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 voluntary controlled school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Horsham, West Sussex, 84 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 11.9%. Religious character: Quaker.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Barns Green Primary School
Ofsted: Not judgedCommunity school · Primary
Horsham · RH13 0PJ · West Sussex
Ages 4–11
- KS286%
- Absence5.9%
- FSM10.2%
- Demand0.95
2.6 miles away
Billingshurst Primary Academy
Ofsted: Requires improvementAcademy sponsor led · Primary
Billingshurst · RH14 9RE · West Sussex
Ages 4–11
- FSM12.9%
2.7 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Colin Brookes
- Telephone
- 01403741274