Springdale Primary School

Springdale Primary is a caring, highly inclusive school where pupils feel welcome, safe and well known. Inspectors found particularly strong inclusion practice, with effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, including the speech and language resource base, and well-coordinated support for disadvantaged pupils. Behaviour is positive, safeguarding standards are met, and pupils achieve broadly in line with national averages by the end of Year 6, with improving outcomes in mathematics, phonics and the multiplication check. Leadership, governance and trust support are secure, and staff wellbeing is promoted well.

Strengths

• Highly inclusive culture where pupils feel welcome and known well
• Effective provision for pupils with SEND, including the speech and language resource base
• Purposeful use of additional funding to support disadvantaged pupils
• Strong phonics teaching and a clear priority on early reading
• Broad and ambitious curriculum with clear knowledge and skills progression
• Pupils behave well, treat each other with respect and bullying is rare
• Pastoral care and personal development support pupils' wellbeing effectively
• Leaders monitor attendance closely and provide practical support to families
• Governance and trust collaboration provide effective support and challenge
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of enrichment and leadership opportunities

Areas for Improvement

• Writing is taught less consistently well than reading and mathematics
• Some younger pupils make errors in foundational writing, including letter formation
• Writing tasks are sometimes too structured, limiting opportunities for the most able pupils to develop their own ideas
• Some independent activities in the early years are not sharply focused on intended learning
• Pupils' knowledge of personal development themes is inconsistent beyond the oldest year groups
• Leaders do not check curriculum and teaching equally well across all subjects
• Feedback to staff is not always precise enough or focused sufficiently on pupils' learning
• Attendance remains lower for a few disadvantaged pupils and some pupils with SEND

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 Springdale Primary School attended 94.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.1% 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, 1.6% of pupils at Springdale Primary School 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 Springdale Primary School had 18.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.5% 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, 22.7% of pupils at Springdale Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 1 pupil.

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 Springdale Primary School received £7,581 and spent £7,872 for each of its 427 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £16,000 (-£37 per pupil).

Across all 4 schools of Lykos Multi Academy Trust, income was £8,168 and spending £8,235 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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Springdale Primary School is part of Lykos Multi Academy Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Highfields School Wolverhampton
• Warstones Primary School Wolverhampton
• Uplands Junior School Wolverhampton
• Westacre Infant School Wolverhampton
• Spring Vale Primary School Wolverhampton

What is Springdale Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Springdale Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Springdale Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Springdale Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Springdale Primary School have?

Springdale Primary School has 406 pupils on roll.

What age range does Springdale Primary School cover?

Springdale Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Springdale Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Springdale Primary School?

Springdale Primary School is at Warstones Drive, Penn, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV4 4NJ.