Primary school in Norwich, Norfolk
Hemblington Primary School
Mill Road, Blofield Heath, Norwich, Norfolk, NR13 4QJ
Ofsted
Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 22 May 2024.
Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.
- Current published outcome
- Good
- Last overall grade in this dataset
- Good
- Days since inspection
- 863 days
- Framework era
- Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)
These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.
Key stage 2 results 2024/25
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths
Reached the higher standard
Average reading score
Average maths score
This year group had 15 pupils, so a single child moves the percentages above by about 6.7 points. Small cohorts move around a lot between years, so treat a single year's figures with care.
On the headline measure this school is around the middle of state-funded primaries in England.
Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.
There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.
Getting a place 2026/27 entry
About as many first choices as places. Of the 15 families who named this school as their first choice, 100% were offered a place.
- Places offered
- 20
- Named it first choice
- 15
- First choices per place
- 0.75
- First choices offered a place
- 100%
for entry into Reception
England average 1.00
England 95.1%
Demand has been broadly steady over three years.
These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.
Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.
Pupils
- Pupils on roll
- 176
- Places
- 196
- How full
- 90% full — 176 of 196 places taken
- Girls / boys
- 74 / 102
- Overall absence
- 5%
- Persistently absent
- 10%
primary schools average 5.2%
primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions
- Free school meals, last 6 years
- 16%
- English as an additional language
- 6%
- With an EHC plan
- 3%
- On SEN support
- 11%
England 25.7%
England 18.7%
England 3.5%
England 15%
School funding 2025-26 financial year
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.
- Evidence found
- Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
- Source coverage
- DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
- What this means
- The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
- What this does not mean
- The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.
Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.
Roads and getting there
Road casualties within 500m
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0
- All reported collisions
- 0
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0
- Busiest road nearby
- U
England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years
England average 24.2 over five years
973 vehicles a day (2019)
Public transport
- Bus stops within 500m
- 0
- Nearest station
- Brundall Gardens Rail Station
England average 11.9
3.6 km away — railway station
Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.
Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.
The area around the school
Among the least deprived fifth of England.
Among the less deprived half of England for children in low-income families.
Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £330,000
- Typical range
- £260,000 to £445,000
- Detached
- £415,000
- Semi-detached
- £250,000
- Terraced
- £252,500
postcode sector NR13 4 · 279 sales
middle half of sales
Homes around this school are close to the England average.
Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.
Who lives there
- Adults with a degree
- 29%
- Adults with no qualifications
- 17%
- In professional or managerial work
- 14%
- Households deprived in 2+ ways
- 16%
- Residents in very good health
- 44%
England 33.8%
England 18.3%
England 13.4%
England 17.8%
England 48.4%
Housing
- Owned by the occupier
- 91%
- Social housing
- 2%
- Privately rented
- 7%
- Detached homes
- 56%
- Four or more bedrooms
- 30%
- No car
- 6%
England 62.7%
England 17%
England 19.2%
England 38.2%
England 22.5%
England 21.9%
Census 2021, for Broadland 014C and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- Ages 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- No
- Boarding
- Day school
- Headteacher
- Headteacher: Andrew Howard
- Opened as this establishment
- 1 July 2017
- Register status
- Open
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- Ward
- Blofield with South Walsham
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham
- URN
- 144574
The unique reference number used in all official school data.
The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.
Admissions history
The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.
Reception
All 10 annual observations
| Entry year | Places | First choices | Per place | First choices offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 25 | 25 | 1.00 | 100% |
| 2018/19 | 12 | 12 | 1.00 | 100% |
| 2019/20 | 26 | 24 | 0.92 | 100% |
| 2020/21 | 17 | 15 | 0.88 | 100% |
| 2021/22 | 19 | 18 | 0.95 | 100% |
| 2022/23 | 28 | 24 | 0.86 | 96% |
| 2023/24 | 21 | 15 | 0.71 | 100% |
| 2024/25 | 15 | 14 | 0.93 | 100% |
| 2025/26 | 26 | 25 | 0.96 | 100% |
| 2026/27 | 20 | 15 | 0.75 | 100% |
These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.
Nearest primary schools
| School | Ofsted | Expected standard | Distance | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blofield Primary SchoolCommunity school | Good 2024 | 83% | 1.1 mi | |
| Little Plumstead Church of England Primary AcademyAcademy converter | No overall grade | 30% | 1.5 mi | |
| Salhouse CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school | No overall grade | 53% | 2.1 mi | |
| Brundall Primary SchoolCommunity school | Good 2023 | 38% | 2.1 mi | |
| Rackheath Primary SchoolCommunity school | Outstanding 2024 | 81% | 2.8 mi | |
| Fairhaven Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school | No overall grade | 35% | 2.9 mi | |
| Lingwood Primary AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Good 2024 | 53% | 2.9 mi | |
| Surlingham Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Good 2022 | 45% | 3.3 mi |
Schools like this
The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.
Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Expected standard | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fordingbridge Infant SchoolCommunity school | Fordingbridge | No overall grade | — | |
| Broomgrove Infant SchoolCommunity school | Colchester | Good 2024 | — | |
| Hughenden Primary SchoolAcademy converter | High Wycombe | Good 2022 | 67% | |
| St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school | Ware | No overall grade | 41% | |
| Windrush Church of England Primary SchoolFree schools | Witney | Good 2024 | — | |
| Ottershaw Christ Church Church of England Junior SchoolAcademy converter | Chertsey | No overall grade | 76% | |
| Loxwood Primary SchoolCommunity school | Billingshurst | Good 2023 | 58% | |
| Roger De Clare First CofE SchoolVoluntary controlled school | Ware | Good 2024 | — | |
| Kimpton Primary SchoolCommunity school | Hitchin | Report card 2026 | 54% | |
| Enfield Academy of New WalthamAcademy converter | Grimsby | Good 2023 | 55% | |
| The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school | Colchester | No overall grade | 57% | |
| All Saints' Catholic Primary School, LanchesterAcademy converter | Durham | No overall grade | 57% |
Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.
Evidence ledger
Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.
| Evidence | Publisher | Reference date | How it reaches this page |
|---|---|---|---|
| School identity | Get Information About Schools | 23 August 2026 | Exact URN 144574; unified importer snapshot |
| Inspection evidence | Ofsted management information | 31 July 2026 | Exact URN; inspection 22 May 2024 |
| Attainment | DfE performance tables | 2024/25 | Exact URN; phase-specific definitions |
| Admissions | DfE school applications and offers | 2026/27 plus history to 2014/15 | Exact URN and entry point; national offer day |
| Pupil intake | DfE school census | 2024/25 | Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing |
| Funding allocation | DfE school funding statistics | 2025-26 financial year | No row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero |
| Roads and transport | DfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTAN | Five-year road window; access-node snapshot | Coordinate join within the stated radius |
| Neighbourhood | ONS Census | 2021 | LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes |
| Deprivation | English Indices of Deprivation | 2019 | LSOA containing the school |
| Home prices | HM Land Registry Price Paid Data | Sales since January 2024 | School postcode sector, not a catchment |
These sources are published for reuse under the Open Government Licence v3.0, including the Crown database-right notice that accompanies Price Paid Data. Definitions and source notes. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.