Copperfield Academy
Primary · Gravesend · DA11 0RB
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 2 December 2025 · report published 12 February 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
459 pupils · 96% of 480 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 39.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 43.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 6.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 6.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.copperfieldacademy.org
- URN
- 139685
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.67 first-choice applications per place58 places offered · 39 first-choice applications · usually has places
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)
60 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)
90% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 5% 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.
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
- 2 December 2025: Expected standard
- 5 May 2021: Good
- 27 January 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 4
- 11 February 2020: Schools into Special Measures Visit 3
- 8 October 2019: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 21 May 2019: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 29 January 2019: Inadequate
- 6 October 2017: Not taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 14 September 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.