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Copperfield Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Dover Road East, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 0RB · copperfieldacademy.org · 01474 352488
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Dec 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 72%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Kent 62%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 459
- 96% of 480 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 39.5%
- First language not English
- 45.8%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Reach2 Academy Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 39 families put the school first and 58 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 58 | 39 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 53 | 48 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 59 | 43 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 38 | 33 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 49 | 44 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 72% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% the higher standard. Across Kent it was 62%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲72% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Copperfield Academy on 2 December 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 2 Dec 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Good, graded inspection, May 2021
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
May 2021Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective - Jan 2021Monitoring visitEffective action
- Feb 2020Monitoring visitEffective action
- Oct 2019Monitoring visitEffective action
Before September 2019
- May 2019Monitoring visitEffective action
Jan 2019Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Sept 2016Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (65 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Positive
- 81%
- Replies
- 65
- 14% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 95% who raised concerns
based on 10 parents (15%) whose child was bullied
based on 21 parents (32%) with SEND