Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 23 June 2026
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Matford Brook Academy on 23 June 2026 using a report card, which grades each area separately and gives no overall grade. The school met Ofsted's safeguarding standards. It was graded Expected standard for achievement, for curriculum and teaching, for inclusion, for leadership and governance, for personal development and wellbeing, for attendance and behaviour and for early years.
No. Distance only counts when Matford Brook Academy has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by its academy trust, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
Matford Brook Academy had 163 pupils aged 2 to 16 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 370. It is a mixed school with no sixth form, so students move on at 16.