Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 14 July 2026
Compared with the local authority and England
Results for 2025 were not published for this school. The Department for Education withholds figures when too few pupils took the tests, to protect their privacy.
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Shaftoe Trust Academy on 14 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 achievement, for inclusion, for leadership and governance, for personal development and wellbeing, for attendance and behaviour and for early years; Expected standard for curriculum and teaching.
Apply through the council where you live by 15 January for a Reception place starting that September. Children start Reception in the September after their fourth birthday. You can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference, and offers are sent on 16 April, or the next working day. A place in its nursery class does not carry on into Reception, so you still need to apply.
No. Distance only counts when Shaftoe Trust 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.
Shaftoe Trust Academy had 109 pupils aged 3 to 11 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 210. It is a mixed school.
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