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 | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Requires improvement |
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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 entry13 applications · 6 places offered · 6 named it first
- 2026 2.2; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2024 2.2; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2023 2.3; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2022 2.7; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2021 3.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2020 4.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.3; Staffordshire median median 2.0
- 2018 1.4; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.8; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.8; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2015 2.0; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Staffordshire median
Dashed bars: as Valley Primary School (URN 124120), 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 | 6 | 13 | 2.2 | 6 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 8 | 12 | 1.5 | 8 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 5 | 11 | 2.2 | 5 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 3 | 7 | 2.3 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 2 | 7 | 3.5 | 2 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 2 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 10 | 13 | 1.3 | 10 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 8 | 11 | 1.4 | 8 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 5 | 9 | 1.8 | 5 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 4 | 7 | 1.8 | 3 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2015 * | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 3 | 5 | 1.7 | 2 | 0.67 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 78% · Writing 78% · Maths 78% → all three 78% 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 | 78% | 11% | 106 | 105 |
| 2023/24 | 50% | 0% | 105 | 105 |
| 2022/23 | 33% | 0% | 106 | 100 |
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 Valley Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.2applications per place 78%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · StaffordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 3.4 km · StaffordshireRemains Good20221.7applications per place
- 4.3 km · StaffordshireGood20231.5applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 4.9 km · StaffordshireRemains Good · improving20242.1applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 4.9 km · Staffordshire20261.9applications per place 46%met the SATs standard
- 5.1 km · Staffordshire20262.2applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 5.8 km · StaffordshireGood20221.2applications per place
- 6.3 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained20251.6applications per place 63%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
- 141848 · 860/2264
- Capacity
- 70 pupils · 39 on roll
- Free school meals
- 20.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2015
- Replaced
- Valley Primary School (URN 124120)
- Address
- School Drive, Oakamoor, Stoke-on-Trent, ST10 3DQ
- Local authority
- Staffordshire · Staffordshire Moorlands
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources