The School Record

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

Hugh Joicey Church of England Primary School, Ford

URN 122291 · Primary · Voluntary aided school · Northumberland

Bank Top, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 2QA

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 7 families named Hugh Joicey Church of England Primary School, Ford as their first preference, and the school made 7 offers.

No per-place figure is published for this year: the school offered 7 places, too few for a ratio to mean anything.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 7 7 7 -
2024 11 14 11 1.00
2023 11 13 11 1.00
2022 7 8 7 -
2021 8 8 8 -
2020 6 12 6 -
2019 5 7 5 -
2018 9 12 9 -
2017 8 10 8 -
2016 12 17 12 1.00
2015 5 7 5 -
2014 11 12 11 1.00

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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, 15 May 2024

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 3.4 3.4 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 2.9 2.3 0.0 0.6 20.7%
2022/23 4.1 2.7 1.0 0.4 34.1%
2021/22 3.9 3.9 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 4.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 5.3 4.1 1.2 0.0 22.6%

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 (Hugh Joicey Ford C of E Aided Primary).

Covers: 49 live postcodes across 71.856 km².

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Hugh Joicey Church of England Primary School, Ford. 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 Hugh Joicey Church of England Primary School, Ford.

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.