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Willow Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Evenlode Road, Tuffley, Gloucester GL4 0JY · willow.sandmat.uk · 01452 526442
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 18%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Gloucestershire 60%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Gloucestershire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 211
- 88% of 240 places
- Local authority
- Gloucestershire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 49.8%
- First language not English
- 12.3%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Sand Academies Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Gloucestershire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 20 families put the school first and 25 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 | 25 | 20 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 28 | 24 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 24 | 25 | 1▲ | 96% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 17 | 16 | 0.9 | 94% |
Results
In 2024/25, 18% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 9% the higher standard. Across Gloucestershire it was 60%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼18% | 62% | ||
| ●9% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼98 | 106 | ||
| ▼95 | 105 | ||
| ▼100 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 115602)
Ofsted
Willow Primary Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 23 January 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 23 Jan 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: Inadequate, graded inspection, May 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 115602), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
- Mar 2021Monitoring visitEffective action
Before September 2019
- Feb 2019Monitoring visitEffective action
May 2018Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115602)
Sept 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115602)
May 2009Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115602)
What parents said
91% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (35 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 91%
- Replies
- 35
- 18% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 71% who raised concerns
based on the 37% who had a child bullied
based on 19 parents (54%) with SEND