Primary
Hamsterley Primary School
Hamsterley Primary School, Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland, DL13 3QF
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 36 of 49 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.0
- Local authority
- County Durham
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 2.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 4.2
- Pupils per adult
- 8.2
- Pupils
- 34
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected July 2025
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections2
February 2024
Ungraded inspection
Good
Read the report (opens in a new tab)February 2019
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
SATs results
14%
41 points below the Bishop Auckland average (55% across 21 schools)
104.0
0.7 below the Bishop Auckland average (104.7 across 21 schools)
21st of 24 by our score, among the primary schools in Bishop Auckland we can score - 31 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2023/2024
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 96 |
| Average reading score | 104 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 14% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time2 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 33% |
| 23/24 | 14% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 108.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 101.0 |
| 23/24 | 96.0 |
Hamsterley Primary School, Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland, DL13 3QF
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
County Durham admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Sarah Hodgkinson and Richard Sains (Co Executive Headteachers)
- Address
- Hamsterley Primary School, Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland, DL13 3QF
- Telephone
- 01388488279