Gladstone Primary Academy, Stoke-on-Trent

Ofsted's report card from its 9 June 2026 inspection grades Gladstone Primary Academy on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Overall, pupils make suitable progress across the curriculum from their starting points."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that the importance of positive attendance is understood by all."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have further refined and improved the school's curriculum."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders prioritise the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have created a warm and inclusive school culture."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "New leaders have invigorated the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils benefit from a well-sequenced and coherent personal, social, health and economic education programme."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff consistently deliver the school's curriculum effectively, focusing on the important learning that pupils need to remember over time and making sure that pupils respond to any feedback given"; "Leaders should support staff so that they draw from the training provided to ensure that adaptations to learning are carefully tailored to pupils' needs in order to successfully reduce any barriers".

From the headteacher's welcome: "It is my privilege to be the Headteacher at Gladstone Primary Academy, having already worked at the school for 16 years as Deputy Headteacher. I am proud to have been part of Gladstone's journey during the period of the amalgamation between Adderley Green Infants and Woodhouse Junior School."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, rugby, cricket, dance, choir, Lego, eco club, art, cadets and French.

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils at Gladstone Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 72% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 73% in Stoke-on-Trent and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 61% in reading and 57% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 59 families put Gladstone Primary Academy as their first choice and 88 named it as one of their preferences, for 59 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. 2 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Gladstone Primary Academy are Sandford Hill Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 78% reading, 82% maths); Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff (0.4 miles, Requires improvement, 84% reading, 73% maths); St Gregory's Catholic Academy (0.8 miles, Outstanding, 88% reading, 84% maths); and Alexandra Infants' School (1 mile, Requires improvement).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Gladstone Primary Academy.

Gladstone 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.

40% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 9.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (81%) and Black (7%).

In 2026, 72 pupils (15.8%) 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 speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest railway station is Platform 1, about 660 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

16 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Amison Street (adjacent), 70 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Gladstone Primary Academy stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Gladstone 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 Gladstone Primary Academy are St Thomas More Catholic Academy (0.9 miles), Discovery Academy (1.1 miles), Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams (1.3 miles) and Ormiston Meridian Academy (1.6 miles).