Graded inspection · May 2025 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 20 May 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 5 March 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains 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 entry18 applications · 11 places offered · 11 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.8; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2024 2.0; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2023 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2022 1.9; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2021 1.4; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2020 1.4; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2019 2.2; Staffordshire median median 2.0
- 2018 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2017 2.0; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2015 1.9; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2014 2.5; 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 | 11 | 18 | 1.6 | 11 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 11 | 20 | 1.8 | 11 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 12 | 24 | 2.0 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 8 | 13 | 1.6 | 8 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 9 | 17 | 1.9 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 9 | 13 | 1.4 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 12 | 17 | 1.4 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 5 | 11 | 2.2 | 5 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 11 | 17 | 1.6 | 10 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2017 | 8 | 16 | 2.0 | 8 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 6 | 10 | 1.7 | 6 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 | 8 | 15 | 1.9 | 8 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 | 10 | 25 | 2.5 | 17 | 1.70 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 79% · Writing 79% · Maths 71% → all three 64% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Staffordshire median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 64% | 7% | 105 | 102 |
| 2023/24 | 78% | 22% | 107 | 105 |
| 2022/23 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Faber Catholic Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · StaffordshireGood20242.2applications per place 78%met the SATs standard
- 3.6 km · StaffordshireRemains Good20221.7applications per place
- 5.2 km · StaffordshireGood20231.5applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 5.2 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained20251.6applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 5.9 km · StaffordshireGood20221.2applications per place
- 6.2 km · StaffordshireRemains Good · improving20242.1applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 6.3 km · Staffordshire20261.9applications per place 46%met the SATs standard
- 6.4 km · Staffordshire20263.0applications per place
- 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
- 138722 · 860/3300
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 80 pupils · 72 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2012
- Replaced
- The Faber Catholic Primary School (URN 131984); The Faber Catholic Primary School (URN 124288)
- Address
- Cotton Lane, Cotton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST10 3DN
- Local authority
- Staffordshire · Staffordshire Moorlands
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources