Ofsted
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted regulates and inspects schools and colleges to seek improvement in the service. They carry out a large number of inspections and regulatory visits in England and publish their findings on their website.
View Cotherstone Primary School’s latest Ofsted report.
Department for Education
Many parents are keen to see how we are performing in relation to other schools.
The Department for Education (DfE) Performance Tables provide a reliable and accessible source of comparative information on pupil attainment and progress, absence, workforce and finance. The Performance Tables include percentages of achievement to Level 4 and Level 5 or above in reading, writing and maths and the percentage of expected progress in each subject. You can find the School Performance Tables from the DfE by clicking the link below.
View Cotherstone Primary School’s Performance Tables.
This shows the latest available data which relates to the 2024-25 academic year.
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
In the academic year 2025-26, 81.8% of our pupils met the expected standard. For reference, the National Average is 82.6%.
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC)
In the academic year 2025-26, our pupils achieved an average score of 17.5/25. For reference, the National Average for 2024-25 was 21/25. The MTC results are not used to inform league tables, but are to identify any areas where individuals would benefit from further times-table support.
KS2 Test Results
In the academic year 2025-26, the percentage of pupils who met the expected standard were:
| Subject | Percentage of pupils achieving expected standard or higher | National average |
| Science | 100% | 82% |
| Maths | 63.6% | 75% |
| Writing | 72.7% | 73% |
| Reading | 54.5% | 75% |
| Grammar, punctuation and spelling | 54.5% | 74% |