Hadrian Academy

Hadrian Academy continues to perform well, maintaining its status as a good school. Pupils exhibit a love for learning and collaborate effectively, benefiting from a supportive environment where they can take on leadership roles. The principal and trust leadership foster a strong, positive ethos that encourages high ambitions among students, ensuring their well-being and engagement in various activities beyond the classroom. The inspection revealed effective support for pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities, ensuring equitable access to the curriculum.

Strengths

• Pupils thrive in a collaborative and supportive learning environment.
• The reading curriculum is delivered with impressive attention to detail.
• Strong support systems are in place for pupils with SEND.
• Pupils exhibit high ambitions for themselves and articulate their future goals.
• Leadership prioritizes staff well-being and manageable workloads.
• The school offers enriching opportunities for personal development and community involvement.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, curriculum plans lack clarity on essential knowledge to be learned by pupils.

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 Hadrian Academy attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.3% 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, 2.3% of pupils at Hadrian Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Hadrian Academy had 20.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.8% 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 Hadrian Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% 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 2024–25 Hadrian Academy received £6,201 and spent £6,266 for each of its 383 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £451,000 (£1,178 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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What is Hadrian Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hadrian Academy is Good, from an inspection in October 2023.

When was Hadrian Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Hadrian Academy was last inspected in October 2023.

How many pupils does Hadrian Academy have?

Hadrian Academy has 394 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hadrian Academy cover?

Hadrian Academy for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Hadrian Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 56% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Hadrian Academy?

Hadrian Academy is at Hadrian Avenue, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 4SR.