Hartside Primary Academy
General Information
- Address: Hartside, Crook, DL15 9NN – View on map
- Phone: 01388766686
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Dawn Simpson
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 31 families put it first for 30 places – 10 for every 10 places. 97% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 12 · 2024 10 · 2025 13 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 65
- % eligible for free school meals: 27.5%
- Pupil mix: 0 in 10 (less mixed than the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 7.5% a year (County Durham 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 55% moved to another school, 45% 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 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: 5.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 16.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 21 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 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: 63% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 7% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 70% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 70%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 77% · Writing 77% · Maths 73% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 73%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 30 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 98th of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- =98Byers Green Primary School63%
- =98Chilton Academy63%
- =98Hartside Primary Academy63%
- =98Our Lady and St Joseph Brooms Catholic Primary School, Leadgate63%
- #102Stanley Burnside Primary School62%
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47th of 141 primary schools in County Durham for Ofsted rating
- #45Greenland Community Primary SchoolGood
- #46Hamsterley Primary SchoolGood
- #47Hartside Primary AcademyGood
- #48Howletch Lane Primary SchoolGood
- #49Hunwick Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,738 (2024-25)
144th of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #142Red Rose Primary School£6,758
- #143Shotley Bridge Primary School£6,751
- #144Hartside Primary Academy£6,738
- #145Newker Primary School£6,729
- #146St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Seaham£6,682
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