Chaddlewood Primary School
General Information
- Address: Hemerdon Heights, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 2EU – View on map
- Phone: 01752337450
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Yasmin Atkinson
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 45 families put it first for 49 places – 9 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 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 58
- % eligible for free school meals: 15.1%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Plymouth average)
- English as an additional language: 6% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.3% a year (Plymouth 17.4%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 49% moved to another school, 51% 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 Plymouth: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 1 (0.0 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 Plymouth, 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: 4.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 6.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 11.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 16 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 15 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 83% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 15% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 18 percentage points above the Plymouth average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 80% against an expected 68%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 80%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 88% · Writing 86% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 90%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 59 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: 6th of 65 junior and primary schools in the area
- =3Tor Bridge Primary School86%
- #5Mayflower Academy84%
- #6Chaddlewood Primary School83%
- =7Ernesettle Community School82%
- =7Pennycross Primary School82%
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11th of 43 primary schools in Plymouth for Ofsted rating
- #9Beechwood Primary AcademyGood
- #10Boringdon Primary SchoolGood
- #11Chaddlewood Primary SchoolGood
- #12College Road Primary SchoolGood
- #13Compton CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,205 (2024-25)
60th of 63 primary schools in Plymouth for spending per pupil
- #58Glen Park Primary School£5,355
- #59Salisbury Road Primary School£5,314
- #60Chaddlewood Primary School£5,205
- #61St Edward's CofE Primary School£4,877
- #62St Matthew's Church of England Primary and Nursery Academy£4,614
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