Stockingford Academy

About Stockingford Academy

Stockingford Academy is a popular choice among local families, with 46 first-preference applications received for just 50 places in the 2025/26 admissions round, resulting in an oversubscription ratio of 2.16. The school received 108 total applications for those places, indicating strong demand. While the Department for Education does not publish a Parent View recommendation percentage for this school, the high number of first-choice applications suggests a solid reputation in the community. The school is a state primary for mixed genders aged 3 to 11, with nursery provision on site. Headteacher Matt Woods leads a school that currently has 497 pupils against a capacity of 630, meaning there is some room for growth. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection in January 2024 rated it Good overall, a significant improvement from its previous Inadequate rating in 2018. Every inspected category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — was rated Good.

Academically, Stockingford Academy’s Key Stage 2 results for 2023/24 show that 50% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is below the Warwickshire local authority average of 62%. In individual subjects, 63% reached the expected standard in reading, 67% in maths, and 69% in writing. At the higher standard, just 1% achieved the combined measure, with 15% in reading, 19% in maths, and 5% in writing. Average scaled scores were 102 in both reading and maths. The school ranks 20th out of 25 primary schools in the Nuneaton and Bedworth local authority area, placing it in the bottom 50% nationally. Progress scores are not available for the current cohort, so it is difficult to assess how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points. The school has a high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 48.5%, which is well above the national average and may partly contextualise the attainment figures.

The school offers a range of facilities including playing fields, a forest school area, a sensory room, a dining hall, and a chapel. Sports provision includes dance, cricket, gymnastics, tennis, swimming, and football, while extracurricular clubs cover gardening, eco club, book club, science club, and film club. For pupils with additional needs, the school provides for a wide spectrum of SEND, including autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language communication needs, social emotional and mental health needs, visual impairment, physical disability, and moderate learning difficulty. It also has a resourced provision on site. The nearest Outstanding-rated primary school is Our Lady & St. Joseph Catholic Academy, 2.7 km away. Stockingford Academy is best suited to families in the Nuneaton area who value a school with strong pastoral and SEND support, a forest school ethos, and a broad range of clubs, and who are comfortable with a school that is improving from a low baseline but remains below average in academic outcomes compared with the local authority.

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