Brighstone Church of England Aided Primary School
Primary · Newport · PO30 4BB
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 6 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
97 pupils · 92% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 23.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.7% of pupils
- Website
- www.brighstoneprimary.org.uk
- URN
- 118192
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.45 first-choice applications per place11 places offered · 16 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)
13 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)
92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% 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
- 6 February 2024: Good
- 24 November 2021: Requires improvement
- 27 May 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 10 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 14 May 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 17 April 2018: Requires improvement
- 9 May 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 19 April 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.