Mountbatten Primary School, Hull

Ofsted's report card from its 2 June 2026 inspection grades Mountbatten Primary School on 7 areas: 1 expected standard and 6 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders are committed to ensuring that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who are disadvantaged, are supported well and included fully in school life."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Leaders are determined that all pupils should achieve well and have taken appropriate steps to strengthen the curriculum and raise expectations."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders have taken decisive and strategic action to improve pupils' attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Since the last inspection, the mathematics and writing curriculums have been through a period of considered and well-managed change."

Early years - Needs attention. "The early years curriculum is well structured and identifies the ambitious vocabulary that pupils should learn as they study different topics."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leaders at all levels are committed and passionate about improving the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "Leaders have established a suitable personal, social and health education (PSHE) curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teachers use assessment information more effectively to ensure gaps in pupils' knowledge are addressed quickly"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils get the support and curriculum adaptations that they need to secure essential foundation skills in handwriting and spelling"; "Leaders should ensure that the tasks children in reception complete when they learn independently, are more closely matched to their needs and to the learning outcomes that staff intend"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils develop a secure understanding of British values and protected characteristics and how important these are in modern Britain today"; "Leaders should ensure that the actions they take to address incidents involving derogatory language make a long lasting and meaningful change to pupils' attitudes and behaviours"; "Leaders should ensure that monitoring processes they use to review the school's performance identify areas of improvement with greater precision and that action is taken to rapidly improve the issues that are identified".

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, rugby, gymnastics and coding.

The school runs a breakfast club from 8:00am.

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils at Mountbatten Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 73% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 76% in Kingston upon Hull, City of; and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 59% in reading and 54% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 21 families put Mountbatten Primary School as their first choice and 39 named it as one of their preferences, for 24 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Mountbatten Primary School are Oldfleet Primary School (0.4 miles, Requires improvement, 53% reading, 40% maths); Griffin Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 77% reading, 75% maths); Thanet Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 63% reading, 60% maths); and Stockwell Academy (0.9 miles, Good, 69% reading, 69% maths).

Mountbatten Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Mountbatten Primary School is one of 16 schools run by Venn Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 60% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

52.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 11.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (84%) and Black (6%).

Mountbatten Primary School had 10 teachers in 2026, one for every 24 pupils: fewer teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Mountbatten Primary School.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is The Grange, 300 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Mountbatten Primary School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Mountbatten Primary School issued 3 suspensions, 1.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Mountbatten Primary School are The Marvell College (0.4 miles) and Liberty Academy (1.1 miles).