Freethorpe Community Primary and Nursery School

Community school·Primary school Norwich, Norfolk·NR13 3NZ
Composite score
39.5
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#11,080
National rank
#1199
In East of England
#142
In Norfolk
Top 75%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
20 first choices, 20 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
26
any preference, for 20 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0420231.0020241.0020251.002026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Freethorpe Community Primary and Nursery School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
156
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
0.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
14.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,821
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

School overview

Freethorpe Community Primary and Nursery School is a primary school serving Norwich, Norfolk, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 156 pupils aged 2 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 50% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 17.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Freethorpe Community Primary and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 20 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 21.9 pupils per teacher. Freethorpe Community Primary and Nursery School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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