Burnopfield Primary School
General Information
- Address: Front Street, Burnopfield, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE16 6PT – View on map
- Phone: 01207270397
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Headteacher Rebecca Brunton
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 32 families put it first for 32 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 32 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 59
- % eligible for free school meals: 18.2%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 1% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 9.6% a year (County Durham 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 40% moved to another school, 60% 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.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across County Durham: 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: 5 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 3 (0.1 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 County Durham, 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: 4.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 8.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision 1 place · 1 pupil at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card May 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
- Achievement Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2022). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 78% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 12% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 16 percentage points above the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 81% against an expected 66%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 81%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 84% · Writing 82% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 106
- Based on: 51 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: joint 25th of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- #23Nettlesworth Primary School80%
- #24Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary School79%
- =25Burnopfield Primary School78%
- =25Finchale Primary School78%
- =25St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Sacriston78%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,366 (2024-25)
160th of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #158Toft Hill Primary School£6,426
- #159Easington CofE Primary School£6,417
- #160Burnopfield Primary School£6,366
- #161St Benet's Catholic Primary School, Ouston£6,366
- #162Belmont CofE (Controlled) Primary School£6,346
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