Ash Green Primary Academy, Stoke-on-Trent

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Ash Green Primary Academy on 7 areas: 1 strong standard and 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders provide a comprehensive and well-planned programme for personal development."

Achievement - Expected standard. "On the whole, pupils make suitable progress through the curriculum."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have clear and effective systems to promote regular attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have ensured that a well-sequenced and progressive curriculum is in place across all subjects."

Early years - Expected standard. "The early years curriculum is well structured and clearly sequenced."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff understand pupils' individual circumstances and backgrounds well."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "The school has a clear and ambitious vision that is shared and understood by all leaders."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure greater consistency in the teaching of writing and mathematics across the school by refining adaptive teaching and in-the-moment assessment, so that work is precisely matched to pupils' starting points and all pupils make consistent, sustained progress in their learning"; "Leaders should continue to build on the positive learning culture by further promoting consistently high levels of pupil engagement, ensuring staff use effective strategies to maintain participation and support all pupils to remain focused and actively involved in their learning"; "Leaders should ensure that, in the early years, staff consistently maximise opportunities for purposeful, high-quality interactions, accelerating progress for all children".

In 2025, 90% of Year 6 pupils at Ash Green Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 75% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 73% in Stoke-on-Trent and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (89% in reading, 79% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 62 families put Ash Green Primary Academy as their first choice and 108 named it as one of their preferences, for 60 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 3 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Ash Green Primary Academy are Priory CofE Academy (0.7 miles, 75% reading, 82% maths); Newstead Primary Academy (1.3 miles, Outstanding, 90% reading, 87% maths); St Teresa's Catholic (A) Primary School (1.3 miles, Good, 87% reading, 89% maths); and The Meadows Primary Academy (1.3 miles, 79% reading, 77% maths).

Ash Green Primary Academy's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Ash Green Primary Academy is one of 9 schools run by The Societas Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

5.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 3.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 29 pupils (6.3%) received SEN support and 13 (2.8%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a moderate learning difficulty.

The nearest railway station is Wedgwood Rail Station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Oaktree Road (opposite), 280 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Ash Green Primary Academy stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 8th decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 85 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Stoke-on-Trent (280).

In 2024/25, Ash Green Primary Academy issued 10 suspensions, 2.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Ash Green Primary Academy are Trentham Academy (0.6 miles), Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy (0.9 miles) and St Joseph's College (1.5 miles).