Ellington Primary School

Performance Data

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Attainment and Progress

Early Years Foundation Stage - We have consistently achieved higher than national averages in Early Years.

In 2022, 73% of children achieved a good level of development compared to 73% nationally.

In 2023, 68% of children achieved a good level of development compared to 67% nationally.

In 2024, 74% of children achieved a good level of development compared to 67% nationally.

In 2025, 75% of children achieved a good level of development compared to 68.5% nationally.

Phonics Screening - Our results are consistently higher than national averages.

Due to consistently excellent phonics teaching our children make superb progress and our screening check results demonstrate this:

Year One Phonics screening check 2023: 87%

Year One Phonics screening check 2024: 93%

Year One Phonics screening check 2025: 100%

Key Stage Two - Our results are consistently higher than national averages.

Attainment continues to rise due to outstanding teaching and learning across Ellington Primary School.

Our End of Key Stage Two attainment showed further improvements in Writing, Reading, Maths and GPS. Since converting to a primary school in 2016, these are the best set of results the school has achieved.

78% of children met the expected standard in Reading, Writing, Maths and GPS with 22% reaching Greater Depth in all areas.

Reading:

In 2023, Reading increased from 63% to 82%, a 19% rise with an increase in the number of greater depth children up to 32%.

In 2024, this number rose again to 86% achieving the expected standard and 31% achieving Greater Depth.

In 2025, 89% of children achieved the expected standard with 61% achieving Greater Depth.

Maths:

In 2023, Maths increased from 67% to 82%, a 15% rise and a monumental rise in Greater Depth from 7% to 32%.

In 2024, 79% achieved the expected standard with 28% achieving Greater Depth.

In 2025, 78% achieved the expected standard with 39% of children achieving Greater Depth.

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling:

In 2023, GPS increased from 66% to 82%, a 16% rise. Greater Depth also went from 23% to 36%.

In 2024, attainment rose again with 90% of children at the expected standard and 59% achieving Greater Depth.

In 2025, 89% of children achieved the expected standard with 67% achieving Greater Depth.

Writing:

Writing has been an area for development for the school over the previous three years. In 2024, we obtained our best writing attainment since converting to a Primary School. 83% of children achieved the expected standard and 21% achieved Greater depth.

In 2025, 78% achieved the expected standard and 28% achieved Greater depth.