Great Wood Community Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades Great Wood Community Primary School on 7 areas: 4 expected standard and 3 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. "Leaders establish effective methods to check pupils' attendance."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have established a coherent curriculum that builds children's knowledge and skills over time."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders position the school at the heart of the community."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders are passionate about providing pupils with a comprehensive personal development programme to help them become confident, responsible individuals, ready for the next stage of their lives."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Some pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities do not make the progress they should from their starting points."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Although teaching is typically effective for most pupils, staff do not always design adaptations that help pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) to access the learning."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "While leaders identify pupils' barriers to learning and/or wellbeing, sometimes this is not as swift as it needs to be."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should enhance their strategic oversight of inclusion so that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those known to social care receive sharply targeted support that addresses barriers to learning and wellbeing swiftly and effectively"; "Leaders should ensure that staff have the expertise to provide appropriate adaptations in lessons for pupils with SEND so that barriers to learning are reduced and pupils with SEND progress well from their starting points"; "Leaders should ensure that writing activities in the early years are precisely matched to children's emerging phonics knowledge so that they can build greater accuracy and fluency in their spelling and handwriting"; "Leaders should embed a consistent, school-wide approach to the teaching of handwriting, so pupils develop the fluency and accuracy needed to support their writing across the curriculum".

In 2025, 93% of Year 6 pupils at Great Wood Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 100% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 77% in Staffordshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 85% in reading and 90% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 15 families put Great Wood Community Primary School as their first choice and 31 named it as one of their preferences, for 15 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Great Wood Community Primary School are St Thomas' Catholic Primary School (0.2 miles, Outstanding, 94% reading, 97% maths); Hutchinson Memorial CofE First School (1.4 miles, Requires improvement); Cheadle Primary School (2.1 miles, Good, 61% reading, 55% maths); and Bishop Rawle CofE Primary School (2.2 miles, Good, 87% reading, 73% maths).

Great Wood Community Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

Great Wood Community Primary School is one of 14 schools run by The Moorlands Primary Federation, 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.

0% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (91%) and Mixed (7%).

In 2026, 8 pupils (7.9%) received SEN support and 2 (2%) 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.

Great Wood Community Primary School had 8 teachers in 2026, one for every 13 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 Great Wood Community Primary School.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Doval Gardens (opposite), 240 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 15 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual offences and bicycle theft. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Staffordshire (86).

Great Wood Community Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.