Boddington Church of England Primary Academy, Daventry

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades Boddington Church of England Primary Academy on 7 areas: 2 expected standard and 5 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils enjoy school, and their rates of attendance are high."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The importance of pupils' personal development and wellbeing is woven into the fabric of the school."

Achievement - Needs attention. "The school does not prepare some pupils sufficiently well for their next steps in learning."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "The curriculum, which leaders introduced following the last inspection, does not consider well enough the needs of the school's mixed-age classes."

Early years - Needs attention. "The curriculum and teaching across the early years is too inconsistent."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders do not ensure that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) get precisely the support they need to overcome barriers to their learning."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "While leaders focus on broadly the right areas, their actions to make improvements lack precision and, subsequently, impact."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure the curriculum is suitable and coherently sequenced for all subjects and for the early years, enabling pupils in all year groups to build knowledge successfully and consistently over time"; "Leaders should ensure that staff check pupils' learning systematically and use assessment effectively to adapt their delivery of the curriculum and address gaps and misconceptions in pupils' knowledge"; "Leaders should ensure that the delivery of the early years provision, including through high-quality interactions and the use of assessment, is consistently effective"; "Leaders should ensure that the individual support plans and targets for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are suitable, covering the breadth of these pupils' needs. They should support staff to use the plans and targets effectively to inform the support they provide"; "Leaders and governance should ensure that their actions to make improvements are precise. They should ensure that their processes for checking the deployment of improvement plans and the school's work are robust, ensuring that staff implement actions and intentions consistently, while identifying any weakness quickly".

For September 2026 entry, 3 families put Boddington Church of England Primary Academy as their first choice and 12 named it as one of their preferences, for 6 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Boddington Church of England Primary Academy are St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Aston-le-Walls (1.8 miles, Good, 57% reading, 57% maths); Byfield School (2.1 miles, Good, 78% reading, 67% maths); The Priors School (2.7 miles, Good, 82% reading, 82% maths); and Chipping Warden Primary Academy (2.8 miles, Good, 75% reading, 58% maths).

Boddington Church of England Primary Academy is one of 12 schools run by East Midlands Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

5.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 3.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

Boddington Church of England Primary Academy has a resourced provision: 2 places, 2 pupils on roll.

Boddington Church of England Primary Academy had 3 teachers in 2026, one for every 14 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Boddington Church of England Primary Academy.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Primary School (opposite), 70 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 0 crimes within a mile of the school. That is well below the typical figure around schools in West Northamptonshire (90).

In 2024/25, Boddington Church of England Primary Academy issued 4 suspensions, 8.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.