Barley Fields Primary
Primary · Stockton-on-Tees · TS17 0QP
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 25 November 2025 · report published 5 February 2026
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668 pupils · 95% of 706 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 4.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 19.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 149587
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place89 places offered · 89 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)
87 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)
88% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 6% 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, academy 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
- 25 November 2025: Strong standard
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.