Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Staffordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry121 applications · 77 places offered · 76 named it first
- 2026 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2024 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2023 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2022 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2021 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2020 1.4; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.5; Staffordshire median median 2.0
- 2018 1.9; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2015 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- This school
- Staffordshire median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 77 | 121 | 1.6 | 76 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2025 | 89 | 136 | 1.5 | 92 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2024 | 85 | 128 | 1.5 | 84 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2023 | 89 | 133 | 1.5 | 93 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2022 | 90 | 137 | 1.5 | 107 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2021 | 90 | 140 | 1.6 | 92 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2020 | 89 | 125 | 1.4 | 90 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2019 | 90 | 134 | 1.5 | 100 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2018 | 90 | 175 | 1.9 | 122 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2017 | 89 | 132 | 1.5 | 95 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2016 | 90 | 153 | 1.7 | 109 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2015 | 90 | 143 | 1.6 | 98 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2014 | 90 | 146 | 1.6 | 112 | 1.24 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Violet Way AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.6applications per place
- 0.4 km · StaffordshireRemains Good202464%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · StaffordshireRemains Good20241.6applications per place
- 1.6 km · StaffordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · Derbyshire20261.9applications per place 43%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained20241.9applications per place
- 2.0 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained20251.2applications per place 87%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · StaffordshireGood20211.9applications per place
- 2.2 km · StaffordshireSome aspects not as strong20251.4applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 136762 · 860/2141
- Capacity
- 270 pupils · 251 on roll
- Free school meals
- 15.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2011
- Replaced
- Violet Lane Infant School (URN 124047)
- Address
- Violet Way, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent, DE15 9ES
- Local authority
- Staffordshire · East Staffordshire
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources