Graded inspection · Jul 2023 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 entry90 applications · 59 places offered · 57 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2024 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2023 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2022 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2021 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2020 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.7; Staffordshire median median 2.0
- 2018 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2015 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Staffordshire median
Dashed bars: as Thomas Russell Infants School (URN 124058), 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 | 59 | 90 | 1.5 | 57 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 55 | 83 | 1.5 | 55 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 47 | 79 | 1.7 | 46 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 | 59 | 98 | 1.7 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 58 | 86 | 1.5 | 57 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2021 | 56 | 83 | 1.5 | 54 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2020 | 57 | 94 | 1.7 | 57 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 54 | 92 | 1.7 | 54 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 58 | 91 | 1.6 | 55 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2017 | 58 | 100 | 1.7 | 57 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2016 * | 56 | 87 | 1.6 | 54 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 * | 61 | 94 | 1.5 | 57 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2014 * | 60 | 96 | 1.6 | 61 | 1.02 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Thomas Russell Infants SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20231.5applications per place
- 0.4 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained202478%met the SATs standard
- 2.6 km · DerbyshireGood20232.7applications per place 42%met the SATs standard
- 4.1 km · Staffordshire20261.5applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 4.2 km · Staffordshire20261.3applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 4.2 km · StaffordshireNot yet inspected2.7applications per place
- 4.6 km · StaffordshireGood20233.7applications per place 93%met the SATs standard
- 5.2 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained20242.1applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 5.3 km · Derbyshire20254.6applications per place 57%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
- 142748 · 860/2160
- Trust
- John Taylor MAT
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 167 on roll
- Free school meals
- 4.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2016
- Replaced
- Thomas Russell Infants School (URN 124058)
- Address
- Station Road, Barton-Under-Needwood, Burton-on-Trent, DE13 8DS
- Local authority
- Staffordshire · East Staffordshire
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources