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Tameside Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Sponsored academy
Price Road, Wednesbury WS10 0EZ · tamesideprimary.academy · 0121 556 0340
On the mapSearch near WS10 0EZ
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 75%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Sandwell 61%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Sandwell Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 388
- 62% of 630 places
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 53.5%
- First language not English
- 24.7%
- 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: Sandwell Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 33 families put the school first and 36 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 | 36 | 33 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 39 | 36 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 35 | 33 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 24 | 23 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 75% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 17% the higher standard. Across Sandwell it was 61%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲75% | 62% | ||
| ▲17% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▲109 | 106 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
| ▲109 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 131735)
Ofsted
Tameside Primary Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 14 February 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 14 Feb 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Jul 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 131735), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jul 2017Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Personal development, behaviour and welfare Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Not effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 131735)
Feb 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 131735)
What parents said
76% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (33 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 76%
- Replies
- 33
- 7% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 39% who had a child bullied