Vane Road Primary School
General Information
- Address: Vane Road, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 5RH – View on map
- Phone: 01325300380
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr K F G Pavey
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 56 families put it first for 60 places – 9 for every 10 places. 95% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 101
- % eligible for free school meals: 24.0%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the County Durham average)
- English as an additional language: 1% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20% a year (County Durham 13.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 29% moved to another school, 71% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 2 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: 3.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 4.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 11.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 21 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 18 pupils
- Multi-sensory impairment: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card May 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 Expected standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 14% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 10 percentage points above the County Durham average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 73% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 73%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 79% · Writing 81% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 88%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 58 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 51st of 184 junior and primary schools in the area
- =51St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley72%
- =51Tudhoe Colliery Primary School72%
- =51Vane Road Primary School72%
- =57Browney Primary Academy71%
- =57Frosterley Primary School71%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,092 (2024-25)
170th of 189 primary schools in County Durham for spending per pupil
- #168Shincliffe CofE (Controlled) Primary School£6,191
- #169Browney Primary Academy£6,158
- #170Vane Road Primary School£6,092
- #171Ouston Primary School£6,083
- #172Woodlea Primary School£6,064
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