Spittal Community Primary School
Spittal Community Primary School is a council school in Berwick-upon-Tweed for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 128 pupils and room for 210. About 33 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, a bit more than at most schools.
Main Street, Spittal, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1RD01289 307413spittal.northumberland.sch.ukMrs Wendy Kiff headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet.
Results
No published results yet for this school.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Northumberland council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 2.0 square kilometres. Living inside it moves your child up the queue when there are more applicants than places. It doesn't guarantee a place: the council's admissions rules decide the order.
Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.
68 places were empty (40% of the total), so almost everyone who applies gets in. Pupil numbers have fallen by 21% since 2021/22, so places are getting easier to find.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Northumberland council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
What a home inside the catchment costs
Every home sold inside the council's catchment area, of any type, from HM Land Registry records. If homes here cost more than the district average, that is the price people pay to live close enough to get in.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
Infant classes (Reception to Year 2) average 19.0 pupils (England 25.5); junior classes (Years 3 to 6) average 23.7 (England 27.3).
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: language and communications needs (15), Moderate learning difficulty (9), emotional and mental health (9), Autistic spectrum disorder (2).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 128 | 106 | 120 | 121 | 130 | 144 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 33% | 32% | 30% | 30% | 34% | 32% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 3% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 26% | 24% | 23% | 23% | 21% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 4% | 5% | 5% | 4% | 2% |
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 95.4% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 94.8%.
Attendance year by year
| Measure | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2018/19 | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions missedOverall absence | 4.6% | 5.8% | 5.8% | 5.9% | 2.6% | 4.6% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 2.4% | 3.9% | 3.9% | 5.0% | 2.1% | 3.0% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 2.1% | 1.9% | 1.9% | 0.9% | 0.4% | 1.7% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 13.4% | 20.4% | 14.4% | 14.8% | 4.2% | 14.2% | 12.8% |
| SuspensionsSuspension rate | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | – | – |
| Permanent exclusionsPermanent exclusions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the council school accounts, year to March 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest primary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prior Park Primary School | Council | 0.6 miles | 110 | Good 2023 | 46 | Compare |
| St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Berwick | Academy | 0.9 miles | 98 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Tweedmouth West Primary School | Council | 0.9 miles | 145 | Good 2020 | 31 | Compare |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | Church of England | 1.3 miles | 161 | Good 2023 | 51 | Compare |
| Scremerston First School | Council | 1.5 miles | 38 | No overall grade 2025 | 30 | Compare |
| Berwick St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Church of England | 2.1 miles | 121 | Good 2023 | 31 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Spittal Community Primary School a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Spittal Community Primary School yet.
How many pupils does Spittal Community Primary School have?
128 pupils aged 4 to 11 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 210 places, so it is 61% full.
Is Spittal Community Primary School oversubscribed?
Probably not. 68 places were empty in 2024/25 (40% of the total), so most families who apply get a place.
What is attendance like at Spittal Community Primary School?
Pupils were in school 95.4% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 13% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
How big are the classes at Spittal Community Primary School?
The average class had 21.3 pupils in January 2026. Across England it was 25.4. No class had more than 30 pupils.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Main Street, Spittal, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1RD
- Telephone
- 01289 307413
- Website
- www.spittal.northumberland.sch.uk
- Headteacher
- Mrs Wendy Kiff
- Type of school
- Council school (Community school, local authority maintained schools)
- Phase
- Primary school, ages 4-11, with nursery
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Northumberland
- Ward
- Berwick East
- Constituency
- North Northumberland
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- URN
- 122185 · LAESTAB 9292046 · UKPRN 10080102
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Attendance: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25 full year.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Class sizes: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, consistent financial reporting 2024/25.
- Catchment area: Northumberland council open data (Open Government Licence), reprojected to WGS84.
- House prices: HM Land Registry price paid data, December 2023 to December 2025, placed by postcode.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.