Timothy Hackworth Primary School
Primary · Shildon · DL4 1HN
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 14 March 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
329 pupils · 78% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 62.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.3% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 114113
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.97 first-choice applications per place34 places offered · 33 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
54 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
97% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 March 2023: School remains Good
- 26 September 2017: Good
- 14 September 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 17 November 2015: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.