St Margaret's Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Crossgate Peth, Durham, DH1 4QB – View on map
- Phone: 01913847331
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Alice Hassall
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 9
- % eligible for free school meals: 2.3%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (more mixed than the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 17% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.6% a year (County Durham 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 47% moved to another school, 53% 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: 2.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 3.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 8.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 10 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card February 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 Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Strong standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2022). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 85% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 16% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 23 percentage points above the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 82% against an expected 70%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 82%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 95% · Writing 85% · Maths 95% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 91%
- Average test scores: reading 111, maths 109
- Based on: 55 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 11th of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- =11Montalbo Nursery & Primary School85%
- =11St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blackhall85%
- =11St Margaret's Church of England Primary School85%
- =14Cleves Cross Primary and Nursery School Academy84%
- =14Coxhoe Primary School84%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,345 (2024-25)
163rd of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #161St Benet's Catholic Primary School, Ouston£6,366
- #162Belmont CofE (Controlled) Primary School£6,346
- #163St Margaret's Church of England Primary School£6,345
- #164East Stanley School£6,320
- #165Montalbo Nursery & Primary School£6,309
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