Nine Mile Ride Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

Leadership and management of the school are outstanding. The headteacher, senior leaders and the governing body are exceptionally well organised and set ambitious targets for staff and each pupil. Leaders and teachers think about their own practice and are keen to improve their work through reflection on their own performance.

The quality of teaching has improved across the school because school leaders have raised expectations of teachers and of what pupils can achieve. All staff fully understand their part in making the school very effective. Behaviour and safety have remained outstanding.

Pupils' behaviour is excellent in and... around the school. They have wonderful relationships with adults and each other. Attendance is high because they very much enjoy coming to the school.

All pupils make at least good progress in writing, mathematics and science and make outstanding progress in reading. This is because teaching is now consistently good and some is outstanding. It is not yet an outstanding school because: There is not enough outstanding teaching to ensure all pupils make excellent progress.

Standards in writing are not as high as in reading and mathematics, especially for girls. There are too few opportunities for pupils to visit different places of cultural interest, including places of worship.

Information about this school

Nine Mile Ride Primary School is larger than the average-sized primary school.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs supported through school action is below average. The proportion supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is below average. The proportion of pupils for whom the school receives the pupil premium grant is well below average.

(The pupil premium is additional funding for those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals, pupils from service families and those pupils who are looked after by the local authority.) At this school, it applies mostly to those known to be eligible for free school meals. The large majority of pupils are White British.

The proportion of pupils who are from minority ethnic backgrounds and the proportion who speak English as an additional language are well below average. The headteacher has been in post since September 2011 and both her and the leadership team have been supporting local schools in improving their tracking and monitoring systems for checking on pupils' progress. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics.

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