Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Norfolk
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 entry22 applications · 10 places offered · 9 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.2; Norfolk median median 2.0
- 2025 2.1; Norfolk median median 2.0
- 2024 1.8; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2023 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2022 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2021 2.5; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2020 1.9; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2019 2.0; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2018 2.5; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2017 2.4; Norfolk median median 1.6
- 2016 2.3; Norfolk median median 1.6
- 2015 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2014 2.4; Norfolk median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Norfolk median
Dashed bars: as Duchy of Lancaster Methwold CofE Primary School (URN 121046), the previous school.
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 | 10 | 22 | 2.2 | 9 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 12 | 25 | 2.1 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 10 | 18 | 1.8 | 10 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 10 | 17 | 1.7 | 9 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2022 | 13 | 22 | 1.7 | 13 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 10 | 25 | 2.5 | 10 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 15 | 29 | 1.9 | 18 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2019 | 15 | 30 | 2.0 | 15 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 15 | 38 | 2.5 | 21 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2017 | 15 | 36 | 2.4 | 20 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2016 | 15 | 34 | 2.3 | 23 | 1.53 |
| Sep 2015 | 19 | 32 | 1.7 | 16 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2014 * | 10 | 24 | 2.4 | 10 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 53% · Writing 73% · Maths 60% → all three 47% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Norfolk median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 47% | 0% | 102 | 100 |
| 2023/24 | 50% | 8% | 102 | 98 |
| 2022/23 | 29% | 0% | 99 | 97 |
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
- Duchy of Lancaster Methwold CofE Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 3.3 km · NorfolkGood20231.9applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 4.0 km · NorfolkGood20221.4applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 6.0 km · NorfolkGood20241.4applications per place 93%met the SATs standard
- 6.5 km · Norfolk20251.9applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 7.1 km · NorfolkRemains Good20221.5applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 7.6 km · NorfolkGood20231.6applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 8.2 km · NorfolkRemains Good20242.0applications per place
- 9.8 km · Suffolk20261.5applications per place 54%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
- 140712 · 926/3054
- Trust
- Grace Schools
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 105 pupils · 91 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2014
- Replaced
- Duchy of Lancaster Methwold CofE Primary School (URN 121046)
- Address
- Hythe Road, Methwold, Thetford, IP26 4PP
- Local authority
- Norfolk · King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources