Milton Primary Academy

Milton Primary Academy is a happy, inclusive school where pupils feel safe, behave very well and attend regularly. Inspectors found strong provision in attendance and behaviour, early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing. Safeguarding standards are met. The school is part of Windsor Academy Trust and was inspected under section 5 of the Education Act 2005.

Strengths

• High overall attendance supported by close monitoring and swift intervention.
• Pupils behave extremely well and show respect, creating a calm and orderly environment.
• Strong early years provision prepares children very well for Year 1.
• Highly inclusive culture ensures all pupils, including those with SEND and disadvantaged pupils, feel they belong and can thrive.
• Effective leadership and governance, with strong trust collaboration and high-quality staff development.
• Comprehensive personal development, wellbeing and pastoral care programme.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture of safeguarding.
• Phonics attainment is significantly above average and reading support helps pupils catch up.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve well by the end of Year 6 and the disadvantage gap is narrowing.
• Positive relationships with parents and carers, who hold the school in high regard.

Areas for Improvement

• Teaching quality is not yet consistent across the school.
• Achievement is improving but not consistently strong across all subjects.
• Pupils do not yet build knowledge securely and achieve consistently well over time in every subject.

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 Milton Primary Academy attended 96.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.5% 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, 1.3% of pupils at Milton Primary 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 Milton Primary Academy had 21.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.8% 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, 15.3% of pupils at Milton Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.7% 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 Milton Primary Academy received £6,216 and spent £6,759 for each of its 399 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £215,000 (£538 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of Windsor Academy Trust, income was £7,909 and spending £7,979 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

Milton Primary Academy is part of Windsor Academy Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Greenways Primary Academy Stoke-On-Trent
• Clayton Hall Academy Newcastle-Under-Lyme
• Newcastle Academy Newcastle Under Lyme
• Sir Thomas Boughey Academy Stoke-On-Trent
• Great Wyrley Academy Walsall
• Cheslyn Hay Academy Walsall
• Rivers Primary Academy Walsall
• Goldsmith Primary Academy Harden
• Kingswinford Academy Kingswinford
• Windsor Olympus Academy Birmingham

What is Milton Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Milton Primary Academy is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Milton Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Milton Primary Academy was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Milton Primary Academy have?

Milton Primary Academy has 404 pupils on roll.

What age range does Milton Primary Academy cover?

Milton Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Milton Primary Academy?

Milton Primary Academy is at Leek Road, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 7AF.