Millfield Primary School, North Walsham

Ofsted's report card from its 23 June 2026 inspection grades Millfield Primary School on 7 areas: 6 expected standard and 1 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 place great emphasis on the importance of high attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have recently introduced a new curriculum."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children arrive at the start of the school day ready to learn."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils with additional needs are identified swiftly and accurately."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Since the last inspection, there have been significant changes to the leadership of this school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have implemented a personal development programme that is responsive to the needs of pupils."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Historically, pupils have not achieved as well as they should in national tests and assessments."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that misconceptions and errors in pupils' foundational knowledge, including letter formation, spelling and handwriting, are quickly identified and addressed to secure and deepen pupils' learning"; "Leaders should ensure that high standards of curriculum and teaching are further developed and sustained across all subjects and phases, leading to improved outcomes for all pupils"; "Leaders should continue to embed their work to improve pupils' attendance so that fewer pupils are absent from school".

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils at Millfield Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 59% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 73% and 70% in Norfolk and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (63% in reading, 58% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 39 families put Millfield Primary School as their first choice and 59 named it as one of their preferences, for 40 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 Millfield Primary School are North Walsham Infant School (0.9 miles, Good); North Walsham Junior School (0.9 miles, Good, 66% reading, 61% maths); Swanton Abbott Community Primary School (2.2 miles, Good, 46% reading, 85% maths); and Worstead Church of England Primary School (2.6 miles, Good, 82% reading, 76% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Millfield Primary School.

Millfield Primary School is one of 9 schools run by Enrich Learning Trust, an academy trust.

0.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (86%) and Mixed (6%).

In 2026, 48 pupils (18.2%) received SEN support and 29 (11%) 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 social, emotional and mental health needs.

Millfield Primary School has a resourced provision for autism: 16 places, 16 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is North Walsham Rail Station, about 560 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bus Shelter (adjacent), 180 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 56 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Norfolk (28), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Millfield Primary School issued 75 suspensions, 26.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Millfield Primary School are Visiting Teacher Service North (0.5 miles) and North Walsham High School (0.7 miles).