Squirrel Hayes First School

Foundation school·First school Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire·ST8 7DF

School type

First school

Ages 3–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Squirrel Hayes First School is a first school for pupils aged 3–9. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every first school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

10 first choices, 11 places

First choices per place

0.91

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 11 places

Applications from another council area

10%

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9420221.0020231.0020241.0020250.912026

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

Every child who put Squirrel Hayes First 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: 3–9
Pupils on roll: 61
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

39.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

1.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

24.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

9.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

18.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

17.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£13,652

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · 0.2 mi 83.1 James Bateman Middle School Biddulph · 0.4 mi 40.6 Woodhouse Academy Stoke-on-Trent · 1.0 mi 64.8 Thursfield Primary School Stoke-on-Trent · 2.0 mi 80.5 Castle Primary School Stoke-on-Trent · 2.1 mi 32.5 St Anne's CofE (VC) Primary School Stoke-on-Trent · 2.3 mi 72.2 Kidsgrove Primary School Stoke-on-Trent · 3.0 mi 21.4 St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary Kidsgrove · 3.2 mi 50.3

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Squirrel Hayes First School at a glance

Located in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Squirrel Hayes First School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. The school educates roughly 61 pupils aged 3 to 9.

Squirrel Hayes First School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 10 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 17.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 39% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Squirrel Hayes First 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.