Gastrells Community Primary School, Stroud
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 1 year agoOverall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Gastrells is a calm, caring school where children feel safe and valued. The school does exceptionally well at teaching reading and providing a wide range of enrichment activities including campouts, theatre trips, and clubs that help develop children's confidence and skills. Pupils show excellent behaviour and treat each other with respect and kindness.
Key Strengths
- Strong focus on reading with careful checks to identify pupils needing extra help, enabling most to become fluent readers
- Excellent behaviour and respect demonstrated by pupils throughout the school
- Rich personal development provision with many enrichment activities that build pupils' resilience and skills
Areas for Improvement
- Learning in some subjects is not designed well enough to help pupils gain depth of knowledge
- The school lacks rigorous systems to check how well pupils remember what they have been taught
- Safeguarding records do not always clearly show what actions leaders have taken in response to concerns
Safeguarding
Safeguarding arrangements are effective - the school responds promptly to support pupils in need, teaches pupils how to stay safe, and ensures pupils know adults will listen to them, although records sometimes do not fully reflect the actions taken.
Extracurricular Activities
Campouts, class sleepovers, museum trips, theatre trips, crochet club, dance club, music club
Gastrells Community Primary School is an inclusive, nurturing school where pupils feel safe and enjoy attending regularly. However, the quality of education requires improvement as learning in some subjects has not been designed well enough to help pupils gain deep knowledge and remember what they have learned.
At a Glance
5.8%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
What Parents Think
73 responsesSource: Ofsted Parent View - % who strongly agree or agree
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 65% to 71%. Maths has remained stable at around 63%. Writing has declined from 70% to 54%.
Class Sizes
24.8
Avg class size
6
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
97%
Near capacity
172 pupils
177 capacity
5 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Stroud
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Stroud
Admissions Demand - Gloucestershire
Places available
7,383
Applications
5,834
Got 1st preference
91.9%
Got preferred school
98.5%
Primary admissions across Gloucestershire (2025/26)
Inspection History(9)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
7.87212%
Overall absence
16.25%
Persistent absence
160
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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