Easington CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Easington Village, Peterlee, SR8 3BP – View on map
- Phone: 01915270259
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr John Appleby
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 19 families put it first for 22 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: 2024 11 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 34
- % eligible for free school meals: 20.5%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 4% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 3.1% a year (County Durham 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 2 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 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: 4.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 11.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 9 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card March 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 Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
- Early years Strong standard
- Leadership and governance Strong standard
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 15% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points above the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 65% against an expected 68%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 65%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 70% · Writing 75% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 80%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 20 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 84th of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- =84Blue Coat CofE (Aided) Junior School65%
- =84Bournmoor Primary School65%
- =84Easington CofE Primary School65%
- =84Etherley Lane Primary School65%
- =84Pittington Primary School65%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,417 (2024-25)
159th of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #157Byerley Park Primary School£6,461
- #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
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