The School Record

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

Stannington First School

URN 122228 · Primary · Community school · Northumberland

Church Road, Morpeth, NE61 6HJ

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, 31 families named Stannington First School as their first preference, and the school made 25 offers.

That is 1.24 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 92% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 92% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.12 in 2021–2022 and 1.29 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 31 48 25 1.24
2024 27 36 20 1.35
2023 21 27 20 1.05
2022 24 32 20 1.20
2021 21 32 20 1.05
2020 20 30 21 0.95
2019 26 34 26 1.00
2018 17 21 17 1.00
2017 22 24 19 1.16
2016 13 22 13 1.00
2015 12 17 12 1.00
2014 17 21 15 1.13

“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 ungraded inspection, 23 November 2022

School remains Good

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 5.9 4.0 0.0 1.9 32.2%
2023/24 5.9 5.4 0.0 0.5 8.5%
2022/23 6.1 6.1 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 6.0 5.5 0.0 0.5 8.3%
2019/20 5.7 4.7 0.0 1.0 17.5%

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 (Stannington First School).

Covers: 126 live postcodes across 40.216 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 Stannington 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 Stannington 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.