Beaufront First School
Primary · Hexham · NE46 4LY
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 21 April 2026 · report published 9 June 2026
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62 pupils · 83% of 75 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–9
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 1.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 7.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 6.1% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 122222
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.07 first-choice applications per place15 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.
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)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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
- 21 April 2026: Needs attention
- 5 April 2022: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.