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Holly Lodge Primary Academy

Primary Ages 4-11 418 pupils Ash Vale
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Holly Lodge Primary Academy is an academy converter in Guildford for pupils aged 4 to 11. It has 418 pupils on roll. In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 4-11
Religion Does not apply
Address Stratford Road
Ash Vale
Surrey
GU12 5PX
Phone 01252548390
Reference Number 143809

General Makeup

Number of pupils 418
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 45.22%
Girls: 54.78%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 14.4%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 11.7%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 29.9
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 28.7
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 30.8

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 21 35 56
2 28 32 60
3 26 35 61
4 28 34 62
5 32 29 61
6 31 31 62

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 75.6%
White, Other 8.9%
Mixed, Other 2.6%
Unclassified 2.4%
Indian 2.2%
Pakistani 1.9%
Asian, Other 1.2%
White & Asian 1%
Chinese 0.7%
African 0.7%
White & Black (Caribbean) 0.5%
White & Black (African) 0.5%
Caribbean 0.5%

Overall Ofsted Rating
Last Report Date 03 Dec 2024 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
03 Dec 2024 School inspection
11 Dec 2018 Short inspection
06 Dec 2016 Academy conversion letter
21 Mar 2013 Full inspection:
Previously as Holly Lodge Primary School
28 Mar 2011 Full inspection:
06 Nov 2007 Full inspection:
04 Nov 2002 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 63%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 8%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 106
Maths 105

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 0.2
Writing 0.9
Maths -1.8

How many students meet the standards

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Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 39 9
Third Preference 26 2
From another Local Authority 17 3

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Holly Lodge Primary Academy had 424 pupils for 420 places. That is 4 more pupils than the school has room for.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Ash & Tongham Primary” planning area

Surrey counted 233 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 289 in 2029–30, up 24%.

20172018201920212022202320242025
Places 432432432420420420420420
Pupils 402415415420415418425424
Unfilled 6.9%3.9%3.9%0.0%1.2%0.5%0.0%0.0%

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 Holly Lodge Primary Academy attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

2018201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 2.3%2.2%2.0%4.6%3.8%3.2%3.1%
Unauthorised absence 0.6%0.6%0.4%0.9%1.0%1.1%1.3%
Severely absent pupils 0.0%0.3%0.3%0.8%0.0%0.3%0.5%

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 Holly Lodge Primary Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

20182019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 0.00.00.00.01.21.02.85.9
Permanent exclusions 00000000

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 Holly Lodge Primary Academy had 23.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

201820192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 14.513.313.012.813.413.713.512.812.9
Teachers who left state teaching 4.7%15.5%10.5%10.2%16.6%12.4%21.4%14.8%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 29.2%60.0%–59.1%73.9%52.0%60.9%45.0%–
Sick days per teacher 0.67.2–2.04.13.24.91.9–

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, 8.6% of pupils at Holly Lodge Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Speech, language and communication needs 8 7
Social, emotional and mental health 10 2
Specific learning difficulty 6 1
Moderate learning difficulty 5 1
Autistic spectrum disorder 4 0
Other difficulty or disability 2 0
Severe learning difficulty 1 0

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 Holly Lodge Primary Academy received £5,885 and spent £6,500 for each of its 424 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £150,000 (£355 per pupil).

Across all 9 schools of The Kite Academy Trust, income was £7,546 and spending £7,640 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue reserve £255,000£217,000£177,000£230,000£263,000£143,000£150,000
per pupil £616£521£422£546£624£337£355
In-year balance -£326,000-£74,000-£6,000£556,000£227,000£39,000-£261,000
per pupil -£784-£179-£15£1,318£539£91-£615

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.

Name Distance
South Farnborough Junior School
Cunnington Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 6PL
0.65 miles
South Farnborough Infant School
Queen's Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 6JU
0.66 miles
St Mark's Church of England Primary School
Queen's Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 6DU
0.84 miles
Marlborough Infant School
Redvers Buller Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 2HR
0.97 miles
Napier School
40 Lynchford Road, North Camp, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 6EF
0.99 miles
Mytchett Primary & Nursery Academy
Hamesmoor Road, Mytchett, Camberley, Surrey, GU16 6JB
1.11 miles
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School
Whitefriars, Avenue Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7BW
1.2 miles
St Peter's Church of England Aided Junior School
Church Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7AP
1.34 miles
North Farnborough Infant School
Rectory Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8AJ
1.6 miles
Shawfield Primary School
Winchester Road, Ash, Surrey, GU12 6SX
1.68 miles
Cross Farm Infant Academy
Gresham Way, Frimley Green, Camberley, Surrey, GU16 6LZ
1.75 miles
Stanhope Primary School
Masters Road, Aldershot, GU11 4GJ
1.82 miles
Tower Hill Primary School
Fowler Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0BW
1.99 miles
The Cambridge Primary School
The Cambridge Primary School, Queens Avenue, Wellesley, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 4AA
2.03 miles
Frimley CofE School
Frimley Green Road, Frimley, Camberley, Surrey, GU16 6ND
2.05 miles
Sandringham Infant & Nursery Academy
Sandringham Way, Paddock Hill Estate, Frimley, Surrey, GU16 9YF
2.08 miles
Ash Grange Nursery and Primary School
Ash Church Road, Ash, Hampshire, GU12 6LX
2.08 miles
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Tile Barn Close, Cove, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8LS
2.22 miles
Cherrywood Community Primary School
Mayfield Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8LH
2.3 miles
Walsh CofE Junior School
Ash Street, Ash, Surrey, GU12 6LT
2.34 miles
Name Distance
Salesian College
119 Reading Road, Farnborough, GU14 6PA
0.7 miles
Farnborough College of Technology
Boundary Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 6SB
1.13 miles
The Wavell School
Lynchford Road, The Wavell School, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 6BH
1.29 miles
Henry Tyndale School
Ship Lane, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8BX
1.79 miles
Farnborough Hill
Farnborough Road, Farnborough, GU14 8AT
1.82 miles
The Sixth Form College Farnborough
Prospect Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8JX
2.2 miles
Alderwood School
Belle Vue Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU12 4RZ
2.2 miles
Samuel Cody School
Ballantyne Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8SN
2.42 miles
Ash Manor School
Manor Road, Ash, Surrey, GU12 6QH
2.63 miles
Portesbery School
Newfoundland Road, Deepcut, Surrey, GU16 6TA
2.69 miles
Cove School
St John's Road, Cove, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 9RN
2.72 miles
Tomlinscote School
Tomlinscote Way, Frimley, Camberley, Surrey, GU16 8PY
2.84 miles
Inclusion School Aldershot
Beaumont House, Auchinleck Way, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 1WT
3.03 miles
Bohunt Farnborough
Neville Duke Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 9BY
3.12 miles
Kings International College
Watchetts Drive, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 2PQ
3.19 miles
Carwarden House Community School
118 Upper Chobham Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 1EJ
3.27 miles
Hawley Woods School
Fernhill Road, Blackwater, Camberley, Hampshire, GU17 9HU
3.55 miles
All Hallows Catholic School
Weybourne Road, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 9HF
3.67 miles
Knowl Hill School
School Lane, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0JN
3.72 miles
Farnham Heath End
Hale Reeds, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 9BN
4.03 miles

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Holly Lodge Primary Academy is part of The Kite Academy Trust, which runs 9 schools. The nearest others:

How many pupils does Holly Lodge Primary Academy have?

Holly Lodge Primary Academy has 418 pupils on roll.

What age range does Holly Lodge Primary Academy cover?

Holly Lodge Primary Academy for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Holly Lodge Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Holly Lodge Primary Academy?

Holly Lodge Primary Academy is at Stratford Road, Ash Vale, Surrey, GU12 5PX.

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