Goodyers End Primary School, Bedworth

Ofsted's report card from its 9 September 2026 inspection grades Goodyers End Primary School on 7 areas: 6 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils build secure knowledge in communication and language, early reading, spelling and number in the early years and key stage 1."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have put in place a broad curriculum that is suitably ambitious."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of what is working well and what needs to improve further in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff are quick to identify pupils' needs when they start at the school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders understand the school's context and community well."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have established a personal development programme that develops pupils' understanding of their local community and the wider world."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Over the past 3 years, pupils' attendance has been below the national average, and the proportion of pupils who are frequently absent has been high."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should further strengthen their strategies to improve attendance so that pupils' attendance rates rise and the proportion of pupils who are persistently absent reduces"; "Leaders and governors should evaluate the impact of their actions more precisely so that they can identify what is working well and adapt strategies that are less effective in a timely and systematic way"; "Leaders should embed a consistent approach to the teaching of handwriting so that all pupils form letters accurately and develop greater fluency in their written work".

In its own words: "Goodyers End Primary School is a Community school and was established in 1996 following the linking of Goodyers End First & Middle Schools. Our school has a hardworking and committed staff who work together to ensure that all the children receive a high quality of education."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball, hockey, Lego, sewing and forest school.

The school runs after-school care.

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils at Goodyers End Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 72% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 77% and 74% in Warwickshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 71% in reading and 81% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 45 families put Goodyers End Primary School as their first choice and 135 named it as one of their preferences, for 58 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 1 family who put it first was not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Goodyers End Primary School are Exhall Junior School (0.3 miles); Exhall Cedars Infant School (0.7 miles, Good); Newdigate Primary and Nursery School (0.7 miles, Good, 63% reading, 71% maths); and The Canons C of E Primary School (0.9 miles, Outstanding, 85% reading, 88% maths).

Goodyers End Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 2 schools.

36.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 100 pupils (25.6%) received SEN support and 42 (10.7%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

Goodyers End Primary School has a resourced provision for social, emotional and mental health needs: 14 places, 14 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Bedworth Rail Station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is The Tea Gardens (adjacent), 120 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 191 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other theft. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Warwickshire (88), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Goodyers End Primary School issued 21 suspensions, 5.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Goodyers End Primary School are Ash Green School (0.8 miles), Foxford Community School (1.3 miles) and Nicholas Chamberlaine School (1.6 miles).