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Beeston Fields Flying High Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Boundary Road, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 2RG · beestonfields.notts.sch.uk · 0115 844 0100
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 68%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Nottinghamshire 64%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Nottinghamshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 345
- 92% of 376 places
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 42.9%
- First language not English
- 56.5%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Flying High Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Nottinghamshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 46 families put the school first and 46 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 | 46 | 46 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 43 | 42 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 41 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 36 | 34 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 37 | 34 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 68% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 14% the higher standard. Across Nottinghamshire it was 64%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲68% | 62% | ||
| ▲14% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●106 | 106 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
| ●107 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Beeston Fields Flying High Academy on 17 June 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 17 Jun 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Outstanding |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Improving, ungraded inspection, Mar 2024
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 132072), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2024Ungraded inspectionImproving
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Jun 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 132072)
What parents said
91% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (23 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 91%
- Replies
- 23
- 6% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 70% who raised concerns
based on the 43% who had a child bullied