The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Rothbury First School

URN 122221 · Primary · Community school · Northumberland

Addycombe, Morpeth, NE65 7PG

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 15 families named Rothbury First School as their first preference, and the school made 15 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 53% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 4 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.96 in 2021–2023 and 1.0 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 15 19 15 1.00
2024 16 20 16 1.00
2023 10 15 10 1.00
2022 7 9 8 -
2021 13 16 14 0.93
2020 10 16 10 1.00
2019 6 10 6 -
2018 17 20 17 1.00
2017 18 24 20 0.90
2016 17 24 17 1.00
2015 18 22 18 1.00
2014 22 26 20 1.10

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 8 October 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 5.7 4.7 0.0 1.0 17.5%
2023/24 5.7 5.0 0.0 0.7 12.3%
2022/23 5.1 5.1 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 4.2 2.6 0.0 1.6 38.1%
2020/21 5.9 5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 5.4 4.4 0.0 1.0 18.5%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Northumberland publishes an admission zone for this school (Rothbury First School).

Covers: 192 live postcodes across 136.423 km².

3 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Rothbury First School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Rothbury First School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.