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Picknalls First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Sponsored academy
Oldfields Road, Uttoxeter ST14 7QL · picknalls.com · 01889 228700
On the mapSearch near ST14 7QL
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2020
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 334
- 33 over 301 places · 111%
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 10.2%
- First language not English
- 4.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 54 families put the school first and 54 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 | 54 | 54 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 46 | 46 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 78 | 1.3▲ | 77% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 80 | 1.3▲ | 75% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 56 | 56 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Picknalls First School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 28 January 2020, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Nov 2024 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 26 Nov 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jan 2020
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124142), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Jan 2020Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Apr 2016Good
Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124142)
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (37 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 37
- 13% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 68% who raised concerns
based on the 24% who had a child bullied