Winterbourne Boys' Academy

Winterbourne Boys’ Academy continues to demonstrate a strong performance as a good school, fostering a supportive and safe environment for its pupils. The leadership team is dedicated to the academic and personal development of every student, ensuring that their individual needs are met effectively. The school community is engaged and collaborative, with both parents and pupils expressing high satisfaction with the school’s approach and communication, especially during challenging periods like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strengths

• Pupils are well cared for and feel safe in school.
• Leaders have ambitious expectations for all pupils.
• The curriculum is well designed and covers a broad range of subjects.
• Reading instruction, particularly phonics, is effectively structured.
• Staff are supported well in managing their workload.
• A strong emphasis is placed on pupils' wider development and leadership skills.

Areas for Improvement

• Some younger pupils occasionally find their reading books too challenging.
• In a few instances, teachers do not fully ensure that pupils understand essential knowledge for complex tasks.

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 Winterbourne Boys' Academy attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.7% 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, 5.6% of pupils at Winterbourne Boys' Academy 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 Winterbourne Boys' Academy had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 54.5% 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, 13.9% of pupils at Winterbourne Boys' Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.5% 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 Winterbourne Boys' Academy received £8,392 and spent £8,154 for each of its 198 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £478,000 (£2,414 per pupil).

Across all 3 schools of The Platanos Trust, income was £10,263 and spending £10,232 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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Winterbourne Boys' Academy is part of The Platanos Trust, which runs 3 schools. The nearest others:

• Platanos College London
• Castle Hill Academy Croydon

What is Winterbourne Boys' Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Winterbourne Boys' Academy is Good, from an inspection in May 2022.

When was Winterbourne Boys' Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Winterbourne Boys' Academy was last inspected in May 2022.

How many pupils does Winterbourne Boys' Academy have?

Winterbourne Boys' Academy has 201 pupils on roll.

What age range does Winterbourne Boys' Academy cover?

Winterbourne Boys' Academy for pupils aged 7 to 11.

What are Winterbourne Boys' Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Winterbourne Boys' Academy?

Winterbourne Boys' Academy is at Winterbourne Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, CR7 7QT.