Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy

Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy continues to uphold the standards established during its previous inspection and provides a warm and nurturing environment for pupils. The school fosters high expectations for learning and behavior, with pupils demonstrating positive attitudes and succeeding academically. Notably, the curriculum is ambitious and well-structured, with strong support for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), ensuring that they achieve well. The school actively engages with the wider community to enrich students' understanding of different cultures and prepares them for life in a diverse society.

Strengths

• Strong subject knowledge and effective teaching strategies among staff.
• Ambitious and well-structured curriculum that facilitates learning.
• Successful reading strategies leading to high reading achievement.
• High priority on communication skills starting from early years.
• Excellent pastoral care supporting emotional and behavioral regulation.
• Effective measures to improve pupil attendance.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects lack established routines for assessing pupil understanding.
• Early years activities sometimes do not effectively promote learning.

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 Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy attended 92.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.0% 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, 1.7% of pupils at Windmill L.E.A.D. 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 Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy had 21.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.3% 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, 20.7% of pupils at Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.0% 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 Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy received £7,451 and spent £6,957 for each of its 444 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £155,000 (£349 per pupil).

Across all 27 schools of L.E.A.D. Academy Trust, income was £8,020 and spending £8,028 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 Nottingham · Nottingham local authority: places and applications

Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy is part of L.E.A.D. Academy Trust, which runs 27 schools. The nearest others:

• Hogarth Academy Nottingham
• St Ann's Well Academy Nottingham
• Sycamore Academy Nottingham
• Huntingdon Academy Nottingham
• Edna G. Olds Academy Nottingham
• Radford Primary School Academy Nottingham
• The Glapton Academy Nottingham
• Jubilee L.E.A.D. Academy Nottingham
• Warren Primary Academy Nottingham
• Cloudside Academy Nottingham

What is Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy have?

Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy has 460 pupils on roll.

What age range does Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy cover?

Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy?

Windmill L.E.A.D. Academy is at Sneinton Boulevard, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG2 4FZ.