Springfield Academy
Primary · Darlington · DL1 2AN
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 28 April 2026 · report published 14 June 2026
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236 pupils · 100% of 236 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 42.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.5% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.educationvillage.org.uk
- URN
- 138088
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.29 first-choice applications per place31 places offered · 40 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
28 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 28 April 2026: Expected standard
- 17 May 2022: Good
- 5 May 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 2 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 18 June 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 17 July 2018: Requires improvement
- 3 April 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 2 February 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.