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St Anne's CofE (VC) Primary School

Primary · Stoke-on-Trent · ST6 8TA

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 1 October 2019

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At a glance

176 pupils · 81% of 218 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Voluntary controlled school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
10.2% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
2.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
15.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
1.7% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
www.st-annes-brownedge.staffs.sch.uk
URN
124238

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 18 families named it first for 18 Reception places, 1.00 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2020 entry went to 2.195 miles; distance decided places in 3 of the 4 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2011 to 2020. Ofsted last graded it Good on 1 October 2019, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

18 places offered · 18 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Places by distance, last offered at 2.195 miles for 2020 entry.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2020 entry) lived within 2.195 miles

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

28 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
86%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
14%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
106
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
107
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school86%
Median of its 12 closest peers73.5%
Staffordshire average66.2%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.

SchoolOfstedResult
St Mary's Primary School, A Catholic Voluntary AcademySheffield · 38 miles awayExpected standard79%
Wheatley Lane Methodist Primary SchoolBurnley · 52 miles awayExpected standard72%
Steeple Bumpstead Primary SchoolHaverhill · 130 miles awayGood71%
Hildenborough Church of England Primary SchoolTonbridge · 164 miles awayGood75%
Waltham St Lawrence Primary SchoolReading · 125 miles awayOutstanding81%
Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolOtley · 60 miles awayNo current grade67%
Trinity and St Michael's VA CofE/Methodist Primary SchoolLeyland · 48 miles awayOutstanding78%
Aughton St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolOrmskirk · 45 miles awayGood71%
Chalford Hill Primary SchoolStroud · 94 miles awayExpected standard64%
Goring Church of England Aided Primary SchoolReading · 116 miles awayNo current grade81%
Gotherington Primary SchoolCheltenham · 77 miles awayGood66%
Daresbury Primary SchoolWarrington · 27 miles awayGood85%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 93% (Staffordshire 80%, England 60%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Staffordshire 2%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 1% (Staffordshire 0%, England 1%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (Staffordshire 2%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Staffordshire 0%, England 1%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Staffordshire 3%, England 5%) · Black African 1% (Staffordshire 2%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Staffordshire 1%, England 2%)

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
5%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
13.5%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.56 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Staffordshire: 1.97 suspensions and 0.07 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
17.3
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 13% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained primaries: 0.18% vacant, 0.36% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

20% of teachers took sickness absence, 4 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £49,330; 15.4% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2025-26)

This school£6,824
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 79% (76%) · premises 3% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 6% (8%) · supplies and services 8% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (4%) · bought-in professional services 2% (3%) · catering 3% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve £96,225; in-year balance -£36,742

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: council-maintained school finance return, 2025-26, DfE · how spending is compared

Inspection history since 2015

Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher27%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications18.3%18.1%
In managerial or professional work33.4%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways15.4%18.1%
Residents in very good health42.8%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier91.6%62.3%
Social housing0.6%17.1%
Privately rented7.8%20.5%
Detached houses63.6%22.9%
Flats0.6%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms14.7%21.1%
Households with no car or van8.3%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01029775 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£250,00058 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£199,000–£298,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (29)£280,000
Semi-detached (21)£225,000
Terraced (8)£207,500

Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (3.53 km, 2020 entry): 951 sales, median £199,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.

Child pedestrian casualties
0an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
0an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
0an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
0an urban school averages 6.1

A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted

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