Cliffdale Primary Academy
Special / other · Portsmouth · PO2 0SN
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 18 November 2025 · report published 28 May 2026
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218 pupils · 100% of 216 capacity
- School type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 55.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 23.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 99.5% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 139967
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
27 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
no data
no data
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)
92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% 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
- 18 November 2025: Strong standard
- 8 February 2022: School remains Outstanding
- 17 November 2016: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.