Worlingham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Beccles · NR34 7SB
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Outstanding. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 18 October 2023
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324 pupils · 100% of 323 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 12% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.7% of pupils
- Website
- www.worlingham.org
- URN
- 124748
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place38 places offered · 38 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)
51 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)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 13% 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 May 2025: S5 Inspection
- 17 October 2023: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 5 June 2018: Outstanding
- 11 January 2018: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.