Morda CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Morda, Oswestry, SY10 9NR – View on map
- Phone: 01691652025
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Carl Rogers
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 20 families put it first for 20 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 11 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 23
- % eligible for free school meals: 18.3%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the Shropshire average)
- English as an additional language: 7% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 8.1% a year (Shropshire 14%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 15% moved to another school, 85% 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 Shropshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 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 Shropshire, 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: 15.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Autism 10 places · 2 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: 23.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 11.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 14 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 67% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points above the Shropshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 46% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 46%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 73% · Writing 80% · Maths 67% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 60%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 104
- Based on: 15 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 29th of 96 junior and primary schools in the area
- =29Clunbury CofE Primary School67%
- =29Mereside Church of England Primary Academy67%
- =29Morda CofE Primary School67%
- =29Myddle CofE Primary School67%
- =29Rushbury CofE Primary School67%
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43rd of 86 primary schools in Shropshire for Ofsted rating
- #41Mereside Church of England Primary AcademyGood
- #42Minsterley Primary SchoolGood
- #43Morda CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #44Moreton Say CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #45Morville CofE (Controlled) Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,288 (2024-25)
45th of 112 primary schools in Shropshire for spending per pupil
- #43Moreton Say CofE Primary School£7,376
- #44St George's CofE Academy, Clun£7,347
- #45Morda CofE Primary School£7,288
- #46Tilstock CofE Primary and Nursery£7,253
- #47Bryn Offa CofE Primary School£7,230
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