Hamsey Community Primary School
Primary · Lewes · BN8 4SJ
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 25 June 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
99 pupils · 94% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 15.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 11.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 27.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.1% of pupils
- Website
- www.hamsey.e-sussex.sch.uk/
- URN
- 114394
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.13 first-choice applications per place15 places offered · 17 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
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)
10 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)
43% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 57% moved to another state school
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.
Inspection history since 2015
- 31 October 2018: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.