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Carr Lodge Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Grady Drive, Balby, Doncaster DN4 8GA · carrlodgeacademy.org · 01302 230700
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improving
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 67%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Doncaster 63%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.1
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 448
- 28 over 420 places · 107%
- Local authority
- Doncaster
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 17.4%
- First language not English
- 10.5%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 61 families put the school first and 57 places were offered; 93% 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 | 57 | 61 | 1.1▲ | 93% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 66 | 1.1▲ | 86% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 75 | 1.3▲ | 80% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 57 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 59 | 60 | 1▲ | 93% |
Results
In 2024/25, 67% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 8% the higher standard. Across Doncaster it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲67% | 62% | ||
| ●8% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●106 | 106 | ||
| ●107 | 105 | ||
| ●107 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 19 June 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Carr Lodge Academy was: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Improving
- Inspected
- 18 Jun 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jan 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jan 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
What parents said
96% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (53 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 96%
- Replies
- 53
- 11% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 72% who raised concerns
based on the 34% who had a child bullied