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Co-op Academy Northwood
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Keelings Road, Northwood, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 6QA · northwood.coopacademies.co.uk · 01782 234379
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Jul 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Stoke On Trent Council
- Demand for places
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 179
- 75% of 240 places
- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 38.6%
- First language not English
- 49.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Stoke On Trent Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 32 families put the school first and 43 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 | 43 | 32 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 52 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 34 | 33 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 42 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 35 | 32 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 9 July 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Co-op Academy Northwood was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 8 Jul 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Improving, ungraded inspection, Feb 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2022Ungraded inspectionImproving
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Mar 2011Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (12 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 12
- 6% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 75% who raised concerns
based on the 8% who had a child bullied