Squirrels Heath Primary School

Havering · RM2 5TP

General information Primary School · 4-11 years Who goes here 600 pupils, 18.7% FSM

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Exemplary 90 /100

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Squirrels Heath Primary School

General Information

Address: Salisbury Road, Gidea Park, Romford, RM2 5TP – View on map
Phone: 01708446472
Website: Visit school website
Headteacher: Mrs Mary Shipton
Age range: 4-11 years
Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 60 families put it first for 89 places – 7 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 3 of the 89 places went to families living outside the council area.
Sixth form: No
Intake: Mixed
Religious character: Does not apply
Nursery provision: No

Who goes here

600 pupils out of 630 places At or near capacity

Pupils eligible for free school meals: 112
% eligible for free school meals: 18.7%
Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Havering average)
English as an additional language: 26% (England 22%)

Staff

Teachers leaving each year

Teacher turnover: 18% a year (Havering 14.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
Where they went: about 71% moved to another school, 29% 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.

Supply and cover teaching

Classes taught mainly by supply or cover staff for half a term or more: 2 (a full term or more: 2)
Teaching posts vacant or only temporarily filled during the year: 2
Data year: 2025/26 (from the school, under Freedom of Information)

Government figures only count teachers on contracts of 28 days or more, so a class covered by a run of supply teachers doesn't show up in them – which is why we ask schools directly.

Behaviour

Higher incident record 2025/26

About this Behaviour status

Based on real data requested under Freedom of Information, compared against other schools of the same type that have also responded - not a judgement on any single figure alone.

Reading the numbers: higher figures below often mean a school records thoroughly and takes concerns seriously, rather than more incidents happening. A school reporting unusually low figures sometimes has a reporting gap rather than a problem-free intake. If a figure stands out, it's worth asking the school how it records.

Data year: 2025/26
Bullying incidents: 10
Physical aggression / violence incidents: 49
Child protection referrals: 16
Safeguarding concerns: 86
Racist incidents: 10
Racist incidents resulting in exclusion: 0
Suspensions (fixed-term exclusions): 0
Permanent exclusions: 0
Sexual harassment or sexual violence between pupils (recorded incidents): 7 (led to a suspension or exclusion: <5; referred to social care or police: 0) – a higher number can mean a school takes reports seriously and records them carefully

See the bullying figures for every school in Havering →

Figures may show "<5" for some schools.

What does "<5" mean?

A figure shown as "<5" means the real number is below 5 - the standard convention for this kind of data, used to avoid identifying individual pupils. Different schools may also record and define incidents differently, so read comparisons with care.

18th of 21 primary schools in Havering for behaviour

#16St Peter's Catholic Primary School35%
#17Rainham Village Primary School32%
#18Squirrels Heath Primary School32%
#19The Mawney Foundation School32%
#20Parsonage Farm Primary School28%

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Behaviour ranking

Each school's score (out of 100) reflects how it compares to other schools in the area across all reported behaviour metrics — bullying, physical aggression, safeguarding referrals and racist incidents. A higher score means fewer reported incidents relative to peers. Ranked by real FOI-reported figures. Schools that have declined to provide this data sit at the bottom — refusing a legal request is treated as worse than any honestly-reported result.

Rank School Score

#1Engayne Primary School92%
#2Dame Tipping Church of England Primary School70%
#3Hylands Primary School68%
#4Crowlands Primary School68%
#5Benhurst Primary School65%
#6Park Primary Academy65%
#7Harrow Lodge Primary School59%
#8St Alban's Catholic Primary School58%
#9St Joseph's Catholic Primary School56%
#10St Patrick's Catholic Primary School56%
#11Gidea Park Primary School49%
#12Clockhouse Primary School47%
#13Harold Wood Primary School45%
#14R J Mitchell Primary School40%
#15Nelmes Primary School36%
#16St Peter's Catholic Primary School35%
#17Rainham Village Primary School32%
#18Squirrels Heath Primary School32%
#19The Mawney Foundation School32%
#20Parsonage Farm Primary School28%
#21The James Oglethorpe Primary School8%

Across Havering: suspensions by reason

Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
Suspensions for bullying: 3 (0.1 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 Havering, 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: 4.7%
Persistently absent pupils: 10.8%
Data year: 2024/25

About persistent absence

A pupil is counted as "persistently absent" if they miss 10% or more of their possible school sessions - roughly one day in every two weeks. Schools and Ofsted both pay close attention to this figure specifically, since it can highlight a pattern the overall absence rate alone might hide.

SEN

No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision

SEN Unit and Resourced Provision

Most mainstream schools don't have a dedicated SEN Unit or Resourced Provision - it isn't a mark against a school that doesn't, just a different kind of setup than one that does.

Pupils on SEN Support: 7.7%
Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.5%
Data year: 2025/26

Most common needs - SEN Support

Moderate learning difficulty: 28 pupils
Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils

Most common needs - EHC Plan

Speech, language and communications needs: 24 pupils
Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil

These figures show the makeup of the school.

About these SEND figures

These figures give a sense of the makeup of the school - they aren't a judgement on the quality of support provided.

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Behaviour

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School Ethos

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Ability to Deal with Problems

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Headteacher Approval

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SafeguardingSafeguarding (parent rating)How parents rate the school on keeping children safe - how safe their child feels, and how well concerns are listened to and acted on. It's parents' experience, not an inspection result; Ofsted checks safeguarding separately.

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Would recommend –

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Exemplary (1) Cooperative (20)

This school has the highest transparency score among 21 scored primary schools in Havering this year.

Response: Full response (+60)
Timeliness: Response date not recorded (+10)
Optional data: Provided optional fields (+20)

Exemplary (80–100) · Cooperative (60–79) · Reluctant (40–59) · Obstructive (20–39) · Opaque (0–19)

Educational Attainment

Good 2024 report

About this Ofsted rating

Ofsted changed how it rates schools in the last couple of years, so ratings from different years aren't always on the same scale - that's why we show the year alongside every rating.

Year 6 SATs results

Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 76% (England 62%)
Reached the higher standard: 18% (England 8%)
Compared with the area: 11 percentage points above the Havering average (65%)
Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 72% against an expected 66%)
3-year average (expected standard): 72%
Expected standard by subject: Reading 85% · Writing 83% · Maths 88% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 94%
Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
Based on: 80 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

This schoolHavering averageEngland↗ Improving Up 5 percentage points since 2022/23. In 2024/25 this school was 11 percentage points above the Havering average (65%).

Year 6 SATs: joint 11th of 49 junior and primary schools in the area

=11Brady Primary School76%
=11Scargill Junior School76%
=11Squirrels Heath Primary School76%
=14Ardleigh Green Junior School75%
=14Gidea Park Primary School75%

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Year 6 SATs ranking

Junior and primary schools in this area, ranked by the % of Year 6 pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (official DfE results, 2024/25). Schools with the same result share a place (shown as =). In small schools one or two children can move a school several places, so treat close positions as roughly equal.

Rank School Score

#1Scotts Primary School90%
#2Nelmes Primary School89%
#3Upminster Junior School88%
=4Hacton Primary School83%
=4St Alban's Catholic Primary School83%
#6Concordia Academy81%
=7Crowlands Primary School80%
=7La Salette Catholic Primary School80%
=9Dame Tipping Church of England Primary School77%
=9Drapers' Maylands Primary School77%
=11Brady Primary School76%
=11Scargill Junior School76%
=11Squirrels Heath Primary School76%
=14Ardleigh Green Junior School75%
=14Gidea Park Primary School75%
=14St Joseph's Catholic Primary School75%
=14St Patrick's Catholic Primary School75%
=14Suttons Primary School75%
#19Parklands Primary School72%
#20Harrow Lodge Primary School70%
#21Whybridge Junior School69%
=22Oasis Academy Pinewood68%
=22St Mary's Catholic Primary School68%
=22St Peter's Catholic Primary School68%
=25Engayne Primary School67%
=25The James Oglethorpe Primary School67%
=25The Mawney Foundation School67%
=28Clockhouse Primary School66%
=28Towers Junior School66%
=30Benhurst Primary School63%
=30Branfil Primary School63%
=30Harold Court Primary School63%
=30St Ursula's Catholic Primary School63%
#34Hylands Primary School62%
#35Hilldene Primary School61%
#36Newtons Primary School59%
=37Rainham Village Primary School58%
=37St Edward's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School58%
#39Langtons Junior Academy55%
=40Elm Park Primary School52%
=40Harold Wood Primary School52%
=42Broadford Primary School49%
=42Crownfield Junior School49%
=44Drapers' Brookside Junior School47%
=44Parsonage Farm Primary School47%
=44R J Mitchell Primary School47%
#47Drapers' Pyrgo Priory School46%
=48Mead Primary School40%
=48Rise Park Junior School40%

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21st of 29 primary schools in Havering for Ofsted rating

#19Parklands Primary SchoolGood
#20Rainham Village Primary SchoolGood
#21Squirrels Heath Primary SchoolGood
#22St Alban's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
#23St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolGood

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Ofsted Rating ranking

Based on real Ofsted ratings (via official DfE data) for schools on the same four-word grading scale.

Rank School Score

#1Clockhouse Primary SchoolOutstanding
#2Concordia AcademyOutstanding
#3Harrow Lodge Primary SchoolOutstanding
#4Scotts Primary SchoolOutstanding
#5Brady Primary SchoolGood
#6Branfil Primary SchoolGood
#7Broadford Primary SchoolGood
#8Crowlands Primary SchoolGood
#9Dame Tipping Church of England Primary SchoolGood
#10Engayne Primary SchoolGood
#11Gidea Park Primary SchoolGood
#12Harold Court Primary SchoolGood
#13Harold Wood Primary SchoolGood
#14Hylands Primary SchoolGood
#15La Salette Catholic Primary SchoolGood
#16Mead Primary SchoolGood
#17Newtons Primary SchoolGood
#18Oasis Academy PinewoodGood
#19Parklands Primary SchoolGood
#20Rainham Village Primary SchoolGood
#21Squirrels Heath Primary SchoolGood
#22St Alban's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
#23St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
#24St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
#25St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
#26St Ursula's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
#27Suttons Primary SchoolGood
#28The James Oglethorpe Primary SchoolGood
#29The Mawney Foundation SchoolGood

Financials

Spending per pupil: £6,900 (2024-25)

About this spending figure

A higher or lower position here isn't a sign of a better or worse school - schools have different needs and circumstances - but it can help reassure you that a school has sufficient funding behind your child's education.

26th of 39 primary schools in Havering for spending per pupil

#24St Mary's Catholic Primary School£6,969
#25Harold Wood Primary School£6,916
#26Squirrels Heath Primary School£6,900
#27Oasis Academy Pinewood£6,872
#28Nelmes Primary School£6,862

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Spending Per Pupil ranking

Based on official DfE financial return data (Consistent Financial Reporting / Academies Accounts Return) - not a ranking of school quality.

Rank School Score

#1R J Mitchell Primary School£16,408
#2Elm Park Primary School£9,354
#3Drapers' Pyrgo Priory School£9,019
#4Broadford Primary School£8,179
#5Dame Tipping Church of England Primary School£7,968
#6St Edward's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School£7,927
#7Newtons Primary School£7,779
#8Clockhouse Primary School£7,735
#9The James Oglethorpe Primary School£7,563
#10Parsonage Farm Primary School£7,536
#11Rainham Village Primary School£7,492
#12Drapers' Maylands Primary School£7,488
#13St Alban's Catholic Primary School£7,417
#14Hilldene Primary School£7,399
#15St Ursula's Catholic Primary School£7,395
#16La Salette Catholic Primary School£7,329
#17Suttons Primary School£7,234
#18The Mawney Foundation School£7,148
#19Brady Primary School£7,116
#20St Peter's Catholic Primary School£7,088
#21Harold Court Primary School£7,035
#22Crowlands Primary School£7,031
#23Hylands Primary School£6,986
#24St Mary's Catholic Primary School£6,969
#25Harold Wood Primary School£6,916
#26Squirrels Heath Primary School£6,900
#27Oasis Academy Pinewood£6,872
#28Nelmes Primary School£6,862
#29Hacton Primary School£6,859
#30St Joseph's Catholic Primary School£6,756
#31Harrow Lodge Primary School£6,753
#32Branfil Primary School£6,731
#33Parklands Primary School£6,704
#34St Patrick's Catholic Primary School£6,425
#35Scotts Primary School£6,423
#36Engayne Primary School£6,247
#37Gidea Park Primary School£6,169
#38Benhurst Primary School£6,117
#39Concordia Academy£5,855

View on the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool (GOV.UK)

Environment

Data received 2025/26

About this Environment status

Based on real information requested under Freedom of Information, covering step-free access, specialist facilities, classroom climate, and technology provision.

Accessibility

Step-free for pupils, staff and visitors: Yes
Overall accessibility: Mostly
Lifts for pupil use: Not needed - single-storey site
Accessible toilets: Yes
Changing Places facility: No
Sensory room: No
Other accessibility facilities: None

Climate

Classrooms with air conditioning: 4.2%
Mechanical ventilation: No
Air cooling units: No
Shaded outdoor areas: Yes
Heatwave procedures: Yes - informal arrangements

Technology

Pupil devices (approx.): 500
Pupils per device: 1:1 (one each)
Digital display in every classroom: Yes
Interactive whiteboards: Yes - all classrooms
1:1 pupil device programme: Yes - some year groups
Coding / robotics equipment: Yes
Assistive technology for SEND pupils: Yes

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