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Rocklands Community Primary School

Primary · Attleborough · NR17 1TP

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Good

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.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 13 September 2023

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At a glance

73 pupils · 104% of 70 capacity (over capacity)

School type
Community school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
12.3% of pupils
English as additional language
3.9% of pupils
SEN support
17.1% of pupils
EHC plan
2.6% of pupils
Website
http://www.rocklands.norfolk.sch.uk
URN
120847

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.70 first-choice applications per place

10 places offered · 7 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

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)

14 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
79%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
14%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
110
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
108
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school79%
Median of its 12 closest peers64.5%
Norfolk average56.2%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Rogate CofE Primary SchoolPetersfield · 130 miles awayGood50%
Tacolneston Church of England Primary AcademyNorwich · 9 miles awayNo current grade47%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolHereford · 154 miles awayNeeds attention31%
Isbourne Valley SchoolCheltenham · 127 miles awayGood71%
East Wold Church of England Primary SchoolLouth · 67 miles awayRequires improvement29%
Church Eaton Primary SchoolStafford · 133 miles awayRequires improvement83%
Brompton and Sawdon Community Primary SchoolScarborough · 132 miles awayGood33%
Curbar Primary SchoolHope Valley · 118 miles awayGood62%
Aslacton Primary SchoolNorwich · 11 miles awayNo current grade67%
Fringford Church of England Primary SchoolBicester · 96 miles awayGood67%
Stambridge Primary SchoolRochford · 66 miles awayGood100%
Quernmore Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolLancaster · 184 miles awayGood69%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.8%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
7.7%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
16.2
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

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

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher29.5%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications18%18.1%
In managerial or professional work34.3%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways16.9%18.1%
Residents in very good health48.8%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier76.7%62.3%
Social housing6.6%17.1%
Privately rented16.7%20.5%
Detached houses70.5%22.9%
Flats1.9%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms40.8%21.1%
Households with no car or van5.3%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01026419 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,083 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£410,00020 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£280,500–£626,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (15)£535,000
Semi-detached (5)£250,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
0a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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