Ings Primary School
General Information
- Address: Ings Primary School, Ings Road, Hull, HU8 0SL – View on map
- Phone: 01482374367
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Lisa Allen
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 9 families put it first for 9 places – 10 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 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: 67
- % eligible for free school meals: 31.8%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Kingston upon Hull, City of average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 26.2% a year (Kingston upon Hull, City of 12.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 21% moved to another school, 79% 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 Kingston upon Hull, City of: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 5 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (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 Kingston upon Hull, City of, 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: 5.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 11.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Autism 10 places · 10 pupils at the last count
- Resourced provision for Autism 10 places · 10 pupils 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: 21.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 10.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 24 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 15 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 13 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2014 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 59% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 9 percentage points below the Kingston upon Hull, City of average (68%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 49% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 49%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 64% · Writing 64% · Maths 72% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 56%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 39 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 53rd of 68 junior and primary schools in the area
- =51Dorchester Primary School60%
- =51Griffin Primary School60%
- =53Ings Primary School59%
- =53St Anthony's Voluntary Catholic Academy59%
- =55Paisley Primary School58%
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21st of 52 primary schools in Kingston upon Hull, City of for Ofsted rating
- #19Estcourt Primary AcademyGood
- #20Francis Askew Primary SchoolGood
- #21Ings Primary SchoolGood
- #22Kingswood Parks Primary SchoolGood
- #23Lift Green WayGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,983 (2024-25)
4th of 68 primary schools in Kingston upon Hull, City of for spending per pupil
- #2Cleeve Primary School£8,671
- #3Rokeby Park Primary School£8,509
- #4Ings Primary School£7,983
- #5Thorpepark Academy£7,932
- #6Dorchester Primary School£7,914
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