St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School

Havant · PO9 2JX

General information Primary School · 4-11 years Who goes here 213 pupils, 34.7% FSM

Educational attainment Ofsted report card

Parent score Rate this school No reviews yet - be the first SEN 16% on SEN support Behaviour Typical record Staff 14.4% turnover Financials £6,502 per pupil Environment Buildings and facilities

FOI Transparency How openly this school shares data

Cooperative 70 /100

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St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School

General Information

Address: St Alban's Road, West Leigh, Havant, PO9 2JX – View on map
Phone: 02392482072
Website: Visit school website
Headteacher: Mrs Sarah Goldsworthy
Age range: 4-11 years
Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 18 families put it first for 22 places – 8 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 11 · 2025 9 · 2026 8
Sixth form: No
Intake: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England
Nursery provision: No

Who goes here

213 pupils out of 222 places At or near capacity

Pupils eligible for free school meals: 74
% eligible for free school meals: 34.7%
Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Havant average)
English as an additional language: 7% (England 22%)

Staff

Teachers leaving each year

Teacher turnover: 14.4% a year (Havant 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
Where they went: about 20% moved to another school, 80% 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

Typical 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: <5
Physical aggression / violence incidents: 13
Child protection referrals: 6
Safeguarding concerns: 1059
Racist incidents: <5
Suspensions (fixed-term exclusions): <5
Permanent exclusions: <5

See the bullying figures for every school in Havant →

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.

2nd of 3 primary schools in Havant for behaviour

#1St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Waterlooville70%
#2St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School50%
#3Barncroft Primary School30%

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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

#1St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Waterlooville70%
#2St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School50%
#3Barncroft Primary School30%

Across Hampshire: suspensions by reason

Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 15 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
Suspensions for bullying: 16 (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 Hampshire (the council area this school is in), 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: 4.4%
Persistently absent pupils: 9.8%
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: 16.0%
Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.2%
Data year: 2025/26

Most common needs - SEN Support

Moderate learning difficulty: 13 pupils
Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil

Most common needs - EHC Plan

Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Social, emotional and mental health: 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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Teaching Quality

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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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Wraparound CareWraparound Care (parent rating)How parents rate the school's breakfast and after-school clubs - availability, cost and quality. Only asked for infant, junior and primary schools, where it matters most for working parents.

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Would recommend –

This score reflects how openly the school responded to our Freedom of Information request. Schools that withhold information are rated lower — even the act of hiding data tells parents something about a school’s openness.

Response: Full response (+60)
Timeliness: Response date not recorded (+10)
Optional data: No optional data (+0)

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

Educational Attainment

Ofsted report card January 2026

Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.

Safeguarding Met
Inclusion Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
Achievement Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
Early years Expected standard
Leadership and governance Expected standard

Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.

How Ofsted report cards work

Since November 2025, Ofsted grades each area of a school on its own five-point scale, and no longer gives a single word like “Good” or “Outstanding”. Safeguarding (keeping children safe) is simply met or not met.

Exceptional The very best practice nationally
Strong standard Above what Ofsted expects
Expected standard What Ofsted expects of every school
Needs attention Some weaknesses the school needs to fix
Urgent improvement Serious weaknesses needing urgent action

“Expected standard” is a sound result – it's what Ofsted expects a good school to do. Report cards aren't directly comparable with the old single grades, which is why we don't turn them into one.

Year 6 SATs results

Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 58% (England 62%)
Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
Compared with the area: in line with the Havant average (59%)
Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 65% against an expected 60%)
3-year average (expected standard): 65%
Expected standard by subject: Reading 70% · Writing 70% · Maths 73% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 48%
Average test scores: reading 103, maths 103
Based on: 33 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 schoolHavant averageEngland→ Broadly steady No clear rise or fall since 2022/23 (changes this small are normal from one year group to the next). In 2024/25 this school was in line with the Havant average (59%).

Year 6 SATs: joint 10th of 21 junior and primary schools in the area

#9Mill Rythe Junior School62%
=10Sharps Copse Primary and Nursery School58%
=10St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School58%
=10St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant58%
#13Barncroft Primary School57%

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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

#1Front Lawn Primary Academy82%
#2Padnell Junior School72%
#3St James Church of England Controlled Primary School69%
#4Warren Park Primary School68%
=5Bosmere Junior School66%
=5Purbrook Junior School66%
#7Queen's Inclosure Primary School64%
#8Emsworth Primary School63%
#9Mill Rythe Junior School62%
=10Sharps Copse Primary and Nursery School58%
=10St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School58%
=10St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant58%
#13Barncroft Primary School57%
#14Springwood Junior School55%
#15Mengham Junior School51%
#16Bidbury Junior School49%
#17Hart Plain Junior School47%
#18Trosnant Junior School44%
=19Mill Hill Primary School43%
=19Morelands Primary School43%
#21Woodcroft Primary39%

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Financials

Spending per pupil: £6,502 (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.

10th of 13 primary schools in Havant for spending per pupil

#8Warren Park Primary School£7,290
#9St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant£7,053
#10St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School£6,502
#11St James Church of England Controlled Primary School£5,981
#12Emsworth Primary School£5,968

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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

#1Park Community School£10,964
#2Mill Hill Primary School£8,650
#3Morelands Primary School£8,400
#4Woodcroft Primary£8,085
#5Sharps Copse Primary and Nursery School£8,060
#6Barncroft Primary School£7,424
#7Front Lawn Primary Academy£7,414
#8Warren Park Primary School£7,290
#9St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant£7,053
#10St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School£6,502
#11St James Church of England Controlled Primary School£5,981
#12Emsworth Primary School£5,968
#13Queen's Inclosure Primary School£5,831

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: No
Overall accessibility: Partially
Lifts for pupil use: No
Accessible toilets: Yes
Changing Places facility: No
Sensory room: Yes

Climate

Classrooms with air conditioning: 0%
Mechanical ventilation: No
Air cooling units: Yes - some classrooms
Shaded outdoor areas: Yes
Heatwave procedures: Yes - written procedure

Technology

Pupil devices (approx.): 50
Digital display in every classroom: Yes
Interactive whiteboards: Yes - all classrooms
1:1 pupil device programme: No
Coding / robotics equipment: No
Assistive technology for SEND pupils: Yes

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