Mansfield Primary Academy

About Mansfield Primary Academy

Mansfield Primary Academy is a state-funded mixed primary school in the Nottinghamshire local authority, serving children from age 3 to 11 under headteacher David Jane. It sits within the Mansfield borough and, when ranked by its Key Stage 2 expected standard in reading, writing and maths, places 19th out of 27 primary schools in the Mansfield local area. That puts it in the bottom half of its immediate peers. Looking more broadly across Nottinghamshire’s 286 primary schools, it ranks 173rd. The top-performing schools in the same LA include John Blow Primary School, Harworth CofE Academy and Bunny CofE Primary School. The nearest school rated Outstanding by Ofsted is Crescent Primary School, 3.2 kilometres away. Mansfield Primary Academy itself holds a Good rating from its most recent graded inspection in July 2024, a grade it has maintained since its previous inspection in 2018.

At Key Stage 2 in the 2023/24 academic year, 50% of pupils at Mansfield Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That is below the Nottinghamshire local authority average of 61%. The school’s average scaled score in reading was 102 and in maths was 101. A higher-than-expected proportion of pupils achieved the expected standard in maths (63%) and writing (63%), while reading was slightly lower at 57%. However, the proportion reaching the higher standard in all three subjects was just 7%, with maths higher at 27% and reading higher at 17%. Progress scores are not available for the school, so it is not possible to compare how much value it adds relative to pupils starting points. In its most recent Ofsted inspection, every category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — was rated Good, with no outstanding or requires improvement judgements.

The school has a nursery provision and offers a range of facilities including a sports hall, art studios, music rooms, playing fields and a forest school. Sports on offer include swimming, athletics, netball, dance, rounders and football, and there are clubs for drama, choir, chess and coding. Mansfield Primary Academy has a broad set of SEND provisions, covering moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health, speech language and communication, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability and autistic spectrum disorder. For the 2025/26 intake, the school was oversubscribed: it received 68 total applications for 19 places, with 19 first-preference offers made, giving an oversubscription ratio of 3.58. With 218 pupils on roll against a capacity of 210, the school is operating slightly above its official capacity. This is a school that suits families looking for a Good-rated primary with strong SEND support and a forest school, but where academic outcomes at KS2 are below the local average.

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