Middleton Primary and Nursery School

About Middleton Primary and Nursery School

Middleton Primary and Nursery School holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained since its most recent graded inspection in 2013 and confirmed by an ungraded visit in 2023. The most telling academic metric for this large Nottingham primary is its Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard score: 65% of pupils met this benchmark in the 2023/24 academic year. That places the school above the Nottingham local authority average of 60%, a solid performance in a city where only six out of 74 primary schools achieve an Outstanding Ofsted rating. Within the local authority, Middleton ranks 25th out of 72 schools on this combined measure, putting it in the top half of Nottingham primaries. Nationally, it sits in the 43rd percentile, meaning it outperforms a little under half of all primary schools in England.

Digging deeper into the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, the school’s strongest individual subject was maths, where 85% of pupils reached the expected standard and 38% achieved the higher standard, with an average scaled score of 108. Reading was close behind, with 83% at expected and 30% at the higher level, averaging a score of 106. Writing saw 75% at expected and just 13% at the higher standard, which is a more typical pattern for primary schools nationally. Only 12% of pupils hit the higher standard across all three subjects combined, which suggests that while the school is reliable at getting most children to the expected level, stretching the highest achievers into the top tier is an area of relative focus. The school does not publish progress scores for reading, writing or maths, so it is not possible to compare how much value it adds relative to pupils’ starting points.

With 670 pupils on roll against a capacity of 630, Middleton is oversubscribed and popular: for 2025/26 entry, it received 194 applications for 88 places, with 94 of those as first preferences. That works out at 2.2 applicants per place. The school has a nursery provision and caters for children from age three through to eleven. Its facilities include a library, art studios, an ICT suite, a gymnasium and a chapel, and it offers a broad range of sports from netball and cricket to swimming and gymnastics, plus clubs such as coding, drama and choir. The SEND provision is notably comprehensive, covering seven areas including dyslexia, speech and language needs, autistic spectrum disorder and physical disability. For families in Nottingham looking for a well-subscribed, above-average primary with strong SEND support and a Good Ofsted rating, Middleton is a realistic and solid choice.

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