Whitehills Primary School

Community school·Primary school West Northamptonshire·NN2 8DF
Composite score
48.5
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#7,834
National rank
#647
In East Midlands
#66
In West Northamptonshire
Top 53%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
62%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
49 first choices, 54 places
First choices per place
0.91
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
111
any preference, for 54 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
1.3020221.0720230.9520241.0020250.912026

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

Every child who put Whitehills Primary 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
417
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
18.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
11.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,189
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Whitehills Primary School at a glance

Located in West Northamptonshire, Whitehills Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 417 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 62% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That is down 13.0 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 around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Whitehills Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 49 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 22.4 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 12% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Whitehills Primary 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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