Graded inspection · Oct 2024 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| 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 entry89 applications · 49 places offered · 43 named it first
- 2026 1.8; Norfolk median median 2.0
- 2025 1.8; Norfolk median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2024 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2023 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2022 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2021 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2020 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2018 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Norfolk median
Dashed bars: as Attleborough Primary School (URN 120926), 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 | 49 | 89 | 1.8 | 43 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2025 * | 39 | 71 | 1.8 | 31 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2024 * | 40 | 61 | 1.5 | 32 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2023 * | 58 | 81 | 1.4 | 54 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2022 * | 51 | 86 | 1.7 | 46 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2021 * | 53 | 90 | 1.7 | 49 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2020 * | 57 | 95 | 1.7 | 57 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 46 | 76 | 1.7 | 44 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2018 * | 60 | 90 | 1.5 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2017 * | 41 | 61 | 1.5 | 39 | 0.95 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Attleborough Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.8applications per place
- 2.0 km · NorfolkRequires improvement20241.5applications per place
- 3.7 km · NorfolkOutstanding20232.6applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 3.9 km · NorfolkRemains Good20233.4applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 3.9 km · NorfolkRemains Good20242.0applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 4.3 km · NorfolkGraded · no overall grade20253.3applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 4.6 km · Norfolk20262.6applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 6.2 km · NorfolkGood20232.2applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 6.9 km · NorfolkGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 52%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
- 151655 · 926/2287
- Capacity
- 437 pupils · 365 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2025
- Replaced
- Attleborough Primary School (URN 120926)
- Address
- Besthorpe Road, Attleborough, NR17 2NA
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources