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Silkmore Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Sponsored academy
Exeter Street, Stafford ST17 4EG · silkmoreacademy.co.uk · 01785 333930
On the mapSearch near ST17 4EG
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Jun 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 77%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Staffordshire 63%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 252
- 42 over 210 places · 120%
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 41.3%
- First language not English
- 12.7%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Reach2 Academy Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 23 families put the school first and 25 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 | 25 | 23 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 31 | 1▲ | 94% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 97% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 29 | 33 | 1.1▲ | 88% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 28 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 77% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% the higher standard. Across Staffordshire it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲77% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●107 | 106 | ||
| ●104 | 105 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Silkmore Primary Academy on 23 June 2026 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: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 23 Jun 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, May 2024
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124204), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
May 2024Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Apr 2018Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Mar 2014Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124204)
What parents said
87% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (39 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 87%
- Replies
- 39
- 20% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 77% who raised concerns
based on the 36% who had a child bullied