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The Richard Clarke First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–9 · Academy
Schoolhouse Lane, Abbots Bromley, Rugeley WS15 3BT · richardclarke.staffs.sch.uk · 01283 840206
On the mapSearch near WS15 3BT
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improving
- Ungraded inspection · May 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 106
- 71% of 150 places
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 2.8%
- First language not English
- 0%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 17 families put the school first and 17 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 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 26 | 24 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 2 May 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for The Richard Clarke First School was: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Improving
- Inspected
- 2 May 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2012
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124052), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Feb 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124052)
Jan 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124052)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (28 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 28
- 27% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 89% who raised concerns
based on the 7% who had a child bullied