Glascote Academy

Glascote Academy is a warm, inclusive primary school where pupils attend regularly and enjoy learning. Inspectors found the school good in all key areas—quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years—following a previous outstanding grade. The school is part of Fierte Multi-Academy Trust, and this was its second routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. The school’s strengths include an ambitious curriculum, especially strong early reading and phonics, effective support for pupils with SEND, calm and orderly behaviour, and a wide range of enrichment led by outdoor learning and the school farm. Safeguarding is effective, and pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain. The main areas for improvement are that spelling errors are not always identified and corrected, allowing misconceptions to become embedded and limiting the quality of writing, and that some curriculum subjects are not yet fully developed so pupils do not always apply knowledge deeply. Leaders and the trust have identified the right priorities, but some improvements have not yet had full impact.

Strengths

• Warm and inclusive school culture
• Relentless focus on regular and punctual attendance
• Pupils enjoy school and achieve well
• High expectations of behaviour with calm, orderly classrooms
• Purposeful social times with staff and pupil leaders supporting friendships and sport
• Wide enrichment programme including farm, outdoor learning, clubs and trips
• Ambitious curriculum with knowledgeable teachers
• Strong early reading and phonics provision
• Swift identification and effective support for pupils with SEND
• Personal development through PRIDE virtues, democracy, safety and respect for difference
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Highly effective challenge and support from Fierte Multi-Academy Trust
• Staff value listening leaders and support for workload and well-being

Areas for Improvement

• Spelling errors are not consistently identified and addressed, allowing misconceptions to become embedded
• Pupils’ writing across the curriculum is not of the high standard the school expects
• Some curriculum subjects are not fully developed, limiting opportunities for pupils to apply knowledge in new situations
• Some pupils do not develop the deep, rich subject understanding intended
• Some improvement priorities have not yet had an impact across the school

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 Glascote Academy attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.7% 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, 2.8% of pupils at Glascote 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 Glascote Academy had 18.6 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, 19.3% of pupils at Glascote Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.0% 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 Glascote Academy received £6,442 and spent £6,539 for each of its 281 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £271,000 (£964 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of Fierté Multi-Academy Trust, income was £6,434 and spending £6,626 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 Tamworth · Staffordshire local authority: places and applications

Glascote Academy is part of Fierté Multi-Academy Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• Garden Village Primary Academy Tamworth
• Ankermoor Primary Academy Tamworth
• Wilnecote Junior Academy Tamworth
• Heathfields Infant Academy Tamworth
• Anker Valley Primary Academy Tamworth
• Dosthill Primary School Tamworth
• Manor Primary Academy Tamworth
• Edge Hill Academy Burton-On-Trent
• The Violet Way Academy Burton-On-Trent

What is Glascote Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Glascote Academy is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Glascote Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Glascote Academy was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Glascote Academy have?

Glascote Academy has 275 pupils on roll.

What age range does Glascote Academy cover?

Glascote Academy for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Glascote Academy?

Glascote Academy is at Silverlink Road, Glascote, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B77 2EA.