Uplands Community Primary School

Uplands Community Primary School is a caring, welcoming and ambitious school where most pupils achieve well. Inspectors found positive attitudes to learning, very little disruption, a calm and orderly culture, and a strong personal development offer. The curriculum is ambitious and well supported by staff training, reading is prioritised, pupils with SEND are effectively supported, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its first since it was no longer exempt after previously being judged outstanding; it is a smaller-than-average primary school. The main areas for improvement relate to how securely pupils remember and build on prior learning in some wider curriculum subjects, and to pupils’ ability to explain their mathematical reasoning and apply it to problem-solving. The school has recently introduced retrieval opportunities, but this work is at an early stage. Attendance is improving through work with families, but the school needs to continue this to ensure all pupils attend regularly and on time. Overall, the school provides a good quality of education and has a positive and respectful culture built on kindness, uniqueness and community. Pupils are proud of their school, take on leadership roles, and benefit from a range of trips, clubs and enrichment activities. Staff value the support leaders provide for their workload and well-being.

Strengths

• Caring, welcoming and ambitious school culture
• Most pupils achieve well across the curriculum
• Positive pupil attitudes to learning with very little disruption
• Calm, orderly and respectful environment
• Strong personal development and enrichment offer
• Ambitious curriculum with carefully chosen activities
• Effective staff training builds strong subject knowledge
• Good adaptation for pupils with SEND
• Clear focus on developing language and vocabulary
• Reading is prioritised and pupils read with increasing confidence and fluency
• Effective systems for checking learning in mathematics
• Pupils take on leadership roles and responsibilities
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective
• Staff feel supported with workload and well-being

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils do not remember their learning in the long term across some wider curriculum subjects
• Recently introduced retrieval opportunities are in their early stages
• Some pupils struggle to explain their mathematical reasoning and apply knowledge to problem-solving
• Attendance work needs to continue so all pupils attend regularly and on time

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Uplands Community Primary School attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.5% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.8% of pupils at Uplands Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Uplands Community Primary School had 21.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 6.1% of pupils at Uplands Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Uplands Community Primary School received £7,740 and spent £7,666 for each of its 131 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £100,000 (£765 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Uplands Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Uplands Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was Uplands Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Uplands Community Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does Uplands Community Primary School have?

Uplands Community Primary School has 131 pupils on roll.

What age range does Uplands Community Primary School cover?

Uplands Community Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Uplands Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Uplands Community Primary School?

Uplands Community Primary School is at Thompson Road, Uplands, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 1TE.