Haywood Academy

Haywood Academy is performing well overall, achieving a good rating across various domains. The school fosters a caring community where pupils and students are engaged and supported in their learning. High expectations are set for behaviour and academic performance, contributing to a calm classroom environment that encourages hard work. Significant attention is given to personal development, ensuring students are well-prepared for future opportunities. However, the sixth-form provision has been identified as requiring improvement, particularly in ensuring that all students are adequately prepared for their next steps and maintain regular attendance.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy attending school and feel part of a caring community.
• High expectations of behaviour are established and well understood.
• The curriculum is ambitious and well-sequenced for most subjects.
• Teachers use various strategies to support pupils' understanding effectively.
• Strong emphasis on reading has led to improvements in pupils' reading skills.
• The personal development curriculum fosters tolerance, respect, and community involvement.
• Careers advice starts from Year 7 and includes one-to-one interviews for older students.

Areas for Improvement

• Results in national tests at the end of Year 11 do not yet reflect curriculum improvements.
• Curriculum plans do not always clearly identify learning progression for each year group.
• Formal assessment does not consistently measure gaps in learning accurately.
• Some sixth-form students are not well prepared for their next steps.
• Attendance in the sixth form is irregular, impacting student achievement.

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 Haywood Academy attended 87.8% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 40.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

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, 16.2% of pupils at Haywood Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 9 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 Haywood Academy had 16.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

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, 17.4% of pupils at Haywood Academy were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 4.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

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 secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Haywood Academy received £9,422 and spent £8,943 for each of its 1,115 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £313,000 (£281 per pupil).

Across all 4 schools of City Learning Trust, income was £8,319 and spending £8,006 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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All schools in Stoke-On-Trent · Stoke-on-Trent local authority: places and applications

Haywood Academy is part of City Learning Trust, which runs 4 schools. The nearest others:

• Mill Hill Primary Academy Stoke-On-Trent
• Smallthorne Primary Academy Stoke-On-Trent
• Trentham Academy Stoke-On-Trent

What is Haywood Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Haywood Academy is Good, from an inspection in June 2023.

When was Haywood Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Haywood Academy was last inspected in June 2023.

How many pupils does Haywood Academy have?

Haywood Academy has 1,080 pupils on roll.

What age range does Haywood Academy cover?

Haywood Academy for pupils aged 11 to 19.

What are Haywood Academy's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 35.4, and 20% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Haywood Academy?

Haywood Academy is at High Lane, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 7AB.