Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 7 July 2026
Compared with the local authority and England
Results for 2024/25 were not published for this school. The Department for Education withholds figures when too few pupils sat the exams, to protect their privacy.
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Weldon Village Academy 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 Expected standard for achievement, for curriculum and teaching, for inclusion, for leadership and governance, for personal development and wellbeing and for attendance and behaviour.
Apply through the council where you live by 31 October in your child's Year 6, for a place starting the following September. You apply to your home council even if Weldon Village Academy is in another council's area, and can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference. Offers are sent on 1 March, or the next working day.
No. Distance only counts when Weldon Village 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.
Weldon Village Academy had 475 pupils aged 11 to 19 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 1,500. It is a mixed school with a sixth form.