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Green Lea First School

Primary · Stafford · ST18 0EU

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Expected standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Expected standardAchievement: Expected standardAttendance & behaviour: Strong standardPersonal development: Strong standardInclusion: Expected standardLeadership & governance: Strong standardEarly years: Strong standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 28 April 2026 · report published 10 June 2026

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At a glance

54 pupils · 90% of 60 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
2–9
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
5.6% of pupils
English as additional language
0% of pupils
SEN support
13% of pupils
EHC plan
0% of pupils
Website
www.greenlea.staffs.sch.uk/
URN
149639

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

11 places offered · 11 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

24/25
25/26
26/27

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.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2021 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2016 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 3.975 miles

measurement method not stated by the council.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
2.8%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
13.5
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

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

This school£10,652
Typical primary school£6,959

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

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher39.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications13.6%18.1%
In managerial or professional work42.1%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways10%18.1%
Residents in very good health49.7%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier75.7%62.3%
Social housing5.8%17.1%
Privately rented18.4%20.5%
Detached houses69.5%22.9%
Flats1.9%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms46.7%21.1%
Households with no car or van4.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01029733 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,656 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Roads around the school

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

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
0a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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