Ashton CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Roade Hill, Ashton, Northampton, NN7 2JH – View on map
- Phone: 01604863189
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Jude Busari
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 3 families put it first for 3 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 13 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 13
- % eligible for free school meals: 37.1%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the West Northamptonshire average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.1% a year (West Northamptonshire 16.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 100% moved to another school, 0% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across West Northamptonshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 12 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 9 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in West Northamptonshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 8.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 23.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 28.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 8.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 43% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 20 percentage points below the West Northamptonshire average (63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 50%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 57% · Writing 57% · Maths 43% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 57%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 96
- Based on: 7 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 126th of 139 junior and primary schools in the area
- =123Rectory Farm Primary School45%
- #125Cosgrove Village Primary School44%
- #126Ashton CofE Primary School43%
- #127Kingsthorpe Grove Primary School42%
- #128Crick Primary School39%
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11th of 109 primary schools in West Northamptonshire for Ofsted rating
- #9Abington Vale Primary SchoolGood
- #10All Saints CofE VA Primary SchoolGood
- #11Ashton CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #12Badby SchoolGood
- #13Barby Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £10,820 (2024-25)
8th of 138 primary schools in West Northamptonshire for spending per pupil
- #6Kings Sutton Primary Academy£11,056
- #7Collingtree Church of England Primary School£10,898
- #8Ashton CofE Primary School£10,820
- #9Brington Primary School£10,521
- #10Flore Church of England Primary School£9,620
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