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Woodcroft Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Academy
Wallbridge Drive, Leek ST13 8JG · woodcroftacademy.co.uk · 01538 714796
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Feb 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 138
- 67% of 206 places
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 10.2%
- First language not English
- 2.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 26 families put the school first and 26 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 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 19 | 17 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 23 | 23 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 21 February 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Woodcroft Academy was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 20 Feb 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Mar 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124152), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Mar 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124152)
Jul 2016Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124152)
May 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124152)
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (52 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 52
- 37% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 27% who had a child bullied