Priors Hall - A Learning Community

Academy converter·Primary school Corby, North Northamptonshire·NN17 5EB
Composite score
47.2
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#8,306
National rank
#690
In East Midlands
#42
In North Northamptonshire
Top 56%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
95%
56 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
105
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.44
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0020221.0920231.0720241.3720250.932026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Priors Hall - A Learning Community yet. North Northamptonshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
484
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
9.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
33.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
8.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
27.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,720
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Priors Hall - A Learning Community at a glance

Located in Corby, North Northamptonshire, Priors Hall - A Learning Community is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 484 pupils aged 2 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 60% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. Results have held broadly steady 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 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 95% of the families who made Priors Hall - A Learning Community their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 27.6 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 9% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Priors Hall - A Learning Community 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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