Weedon Bec Primary School
General Information
- Address: West Street, Weedon, Northampton, NN7 4QU – View on map
- Phone: 01327340547
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Alison Crockford
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 16
- % eligible for free school meals: 8.8%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the West Northamptonshire average)
- English as an additional language: 4% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.7% a year (West Northamptonshire 16.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 44% moved to another school, 56% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across West Northamptonshire: 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: 9 (0.3 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 West Northamptonshire, 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: 5.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 11.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Requires improvement 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 30% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 33 percentage points below the West Northamptonshire average (63%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 22% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 22%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 60% · Writing 60% · Maths 47% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 60%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 99
- Based on: 30 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
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SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 135th of 139 junior and primary schools in the area
- =130Paulerspury Church of England Primary School33%
- =130Syresham St James CofE Primary School and Nursery33%
- #135Weedon Bec Primary School30%
- =136Milton Parochial Primary School29%
- =136St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Aston-le-Walls29%
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105th of 105 primary schools in West Northamptonshire for Ofsted rating
- #103Yelvertoft Primary SchoolGood
- #104E-ACT The Grange SchoolRequires improvement
- #105Weedon Bec Primary SchoolRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,881 (2024-25)
109th of 138 primary schools in West Northamptonshire for spending per pupil
- #107Sunnyside Primary Academy£5,925
- #108Deanshanger Primary School£5,885
- #109Weedon Bec Primary School£5,881
- #110All Saints CofE VA Primary School£5,873
- #111Cogenhoe Primary School£5,867
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