West Winch Primary School
General Information
- Address: Back Lane, West Winch, King's Lynn, PE33 0LA – View on map
- Phone: 01553840397
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Keelen Todd
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 34
- % eligible for free school meals: 16.5%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the King's Lynn and West Norfolk average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 7.9% a year (King's Lynn and West Norfolk 17.4%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% 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 Norfolk: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 26 (0.4 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 12 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 5 (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 Norfolk (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: 4.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 17 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 50% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points below the King's Lynn and West Norfolk average (57%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 56% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 56%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 68% · Writing 65% · Maths 62% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 68%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 34 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 35th of 57 junior and primary schools in the area
- =35St Michael's Church of England Academy50%
- =35Walpole Cross Keys Primary School50%
- =35West Winch Primary School50%
- =40Cherry Tree Academy Trust Marham Junior48%
- =40Greenpark Academy48%
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36th of 39 primary schools in King's Lynn and West Norfolk for Ofsted rating
- #34West Lynn Primary SchoolGood
- #35West Walton Community Primary SchoolGood
- #36West Winch Primary SchoolGood
- #37Wimbotsham and Stow AcademyGood
- #38Greyfriars AcademyRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,594 (2024-25)
34th of 49 primary schools in King's Lynn and West Norfolk for spending per pupil
- #32Watlington Community Primary School£6,658
- #33The Norman Church of England Primary School, Northwold£6,610
- #34West Winch Primary School£6,594
- #35Nelson Academy£6,584
- #36Dersingham Primary School£6,523
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