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Dove CofE Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–9 · Academy
Ashbourne Road, Uttoxeter ST14 5PB · dove.staffs.sch.uk · 01889 590203
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 113
- 75% of 150 places
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 23.6%
- First language not English
- 5.3%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 16 families put the school first and 18 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 | 18 | 16 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 21 | 19 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 13 | 12 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Dove CofE Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 5 March 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 5 Mar 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, May 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 143528), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
May 2019Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 143528)
What parents said
89% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (27 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 89%
- Replies
- 27
- 31% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 81% who raised concerns
based on the 19% who had a child bullied