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Knypersley First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Academy
Newpool Road, Knypersley, Stoke-on-Trent ST8 6NN · knypersley.staffs.sch.uk · 01782 973810
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Dec 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 312
- 12 over 300 places · 104%
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 20.7%
- First language not English
- 1.6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 50 families put the school first and 50 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 | 50 | 50 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 54 | 54 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 42 | 42 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 51 | 50 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 41 | 41 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Knypersley First School on 3 December 2024 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 3 Dec 2024
- 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: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Mar 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124060), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2022Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 2017Outstanding
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 Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124060)
Nov 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124060)
What parents said
90% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (39 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 90%
- Replies
- 39
- 14% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 64% who raised concerns
based on the 23% who had a child bullied