Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 7 July 2026
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Penkridge Middle School on 7 July 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 Strong standard for personal development and wellbeing and for attendance and behaviour; Expected standard for achievement, for curriculum and teaching, for inclusion and for leadership and governance.
No. Distance only counts when Penkridge Middle School 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.
Penkridge Middle School had 500 pupils aged 9 to 13 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 500. It is a mixed school.