The Academy of Woodlands
Primary · Gillingham · ME7 2DU
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 11 December 2019
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
758 pupils · 100% of 630 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 39.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 16.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 17.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.6% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 139493
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.94 first-choice applications per place72 places offered · 68 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
90 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)
68% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 13% moved to another state school · 19% left the state-funded sector
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.
Inspection history since 2015
- 25 March 2025: S5 Inspection
- 10 December 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 2 February 2016: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.