Keresley Grange Primary School
General Information
- Address: Waste Lane, Coventry, CV6 2EH – View on map
- Phone: 02476332131
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr John Astley
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 28 families put it first for 32 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 32 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 74
- % eligible for free school meals: 23.6%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (less mixed than the Coventry average)
- English as an additional language: 19% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 27.9% a year (Coventry 15.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 65% moved to another school, 35% 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 Coventry: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 7 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 4 (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 Coventry, 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: 5.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 14.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 22.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 27 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 21 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 11 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 43% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 2% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 17 percentage points below the Coventry average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 50% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 50%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 67% · Writing 45% · Maths 62% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 64%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 101
- Based on: 42 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 76th of 83 junior and primary schools in the area
- =74Edgewick Community Primary School44%
- =74Frederick Bird Academy44%
- =76Keresley Grange Primary School43%
- =76Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School43%
- #78Holbrook Primary School41%
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28th of 65 primary schools in Coventry for Ofsted rating
- #26John Shelton Community Primary SchoolGood
- #27Joseph Cash Primary SchoolGood
- #28Keresley Grange Primary SchoolGood
- #29Limbrick Wood Primary SchoolGood
- #30Manor Park Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,099 (2024-25)
64th of 83 primary schools in Coventry for spending per pupil
- #62SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School£6,133
- #63Holy Family Catholic Primary School£6,100
- #64Keresley Grange Primary School£6,099
- #65Pearl Hyde Community Primary School£6,068
- #66St John Vianney Catholic Primary School£5,987
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