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Highfields Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Elder Lane, Burntwood WS7 9BT · highfields.staffs.sch.uk · 01543 227160
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · May 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 32%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Staffordshire 63%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 205
- 81% of 254 places
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 8.3%
- First language not English
- 1.5%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 26 families put the school first and 28 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 | 28 | 26 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 28 | 23 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 28 | 20 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 29 | 31 | 1.1▲ | 94% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 34 | 1.1▲ | 85% |
Results
In 2024/25, 32% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Staffordshire it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼32% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼101 | 106 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 124211)
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 22 May 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Highfields Primary Academy was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 21 May 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2016
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124211), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124211)
Jul 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124211)
What parents said
79% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (52 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 79%
- Replies
- 52
- 25% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 77% who raised concerns
based on the 27% who had a child bullied