Deaf Hill Primary School
General Information
- Address: Station Road West, Trimdon Station, TS29 6BP – View on map
- Phone: 01429880358
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Paul Newton
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 11 families put it first for 12 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 12 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 70
- % eligible for free school meals: 50.0%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (similar to the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 4% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.6% a year (County Durham 13.1%, 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 (one year, 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 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: 8.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 24.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Other difficulty or disability: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 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: 69% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points above the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 51% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 51%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 75% · Writing 69% · Maths 81% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 63%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 16 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 66th of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- =63St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Coundon70%
- =63St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Dipton70%
- =66Deaf Hill Primary School69%
- =66Newker Primary School69%
- =66St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Crook69%
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31st of 141 primary schools in County Durham for Ofsted rating
- #29Cotsford Primary SchoolGood
- #30Crook Primary SchoolGood
- #31Deaf Hill Primary SchoolGood
- #32Dene House Primary SchoolGood
- #33Durham Gilesgate Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,912 (2024-25)
85th of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #83Chester-Le-Street CofE (Controlled) Primary School£7,928
- #84Delves Lane Primary School£7,918
- #85Deaf Hill Primary School£7,912
- #86Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School£7,906
- #87Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School£7,896
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