Rosa Street Primary and Nursery Academy
General Information
- Address: Rosa Street, Spennymoor, DL16 7NA – View on map
- Phone: 01388815427
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Helen Gibbons
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 79
- % eligible for free school meals: 35.7%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 6% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 26.7% a year (County Durham 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 13% moved to another school, 87% 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 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: 3.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 27.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 32 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 16 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 70% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points above the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 71% against an expected 50%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 83% · Writing 78% · Maths 83% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 83%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 104
- Based on: 23 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 63rd of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- =57Shincliffe CofE (Controlled) Primary School71%
- =57St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton71%
- =63Rosa Street Primary and Nursery Academy70%
- =63St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Coundon70%
- =63St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Dipton70%
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71st of 134 primary schools in County Durham for Ofsted rating
- #69Red Rose Primary SchoolGood
- #70Ribbon SchoolGood
- #71Rosa Street Primary and Nursery AcademyGood
- #72Roseberry Primary and Nursery SchoolGood
- #73Seaham Trinity Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,014 (2024-25)
187th of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #185Cleves Cross Primary and Nursery School Academy£5,079
- #186Copeland Road Primary School£5,036
- #187Rosa Street Primary and Nursery Academy£5,014
- #188Prince Bishops Community Primary School£4,558
- #189Hunwick Primary School£4,242
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