St Weonard's Academy
General Information
- Address: Mount Way, St Weonards, Hereford, HR2 8NU – View on map
- Phone: 01981580352
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Robert James
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 3 families put it first for 3 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 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 3
- % eligible for free school meals: 9.4%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the Herefordshire, County of average)
- English as an additional language: 13% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 0% a year (Herefordshire, County of 14.4%, typical in England 13.9%)
- 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 Herefordshire, County of: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.4 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 2 (0.1 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 Herefordshire, County of, 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: 16.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 65.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Autism 9 places · 9 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: 18.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 28.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 9 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Outstanding 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
SATs results for this school weren't published for 2024/25 - the Department for Education withholds them when a year group is too small to report without identifying pupils.
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5th of 58 primary schools in Herefordshire, County of for Ofsted rating
- #3Riverside Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #4St James' Church of England Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #5St Weonard's AcademyOutstanding
- #6Sutton Primary AcademyOutstanding
- #7Walford Nursery & Primary SchoolOutstanding
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £13,888 (2024-25)
2nd of 77 primary schools in Herefordshire, County of for spending per pupil
- #1King's Caple Primary Academy£14,304
- #2St Weonard's Academy£13,888
- #3Bredenbury Primary School£12,629
- #4Almeley Primary School£12,247
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