Outwoods Primary School, Burton-on-Trent

Ofsted's report card from its 21 April 2026 inspection grades Outwoods Primary School 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. "Pupils typically achieve well as they move through the school."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders make improving pupils' attendance a priority."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The curriculum at Outwoods is well sequenced, broad and balanced."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have sequenced the steps children will learn from Nursery to the end of the Reception Year."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have high expectations for all vulnerable pupils."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, trustees and governors know their school well."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have established a rich and responsive programme of personal development."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to develop the wider curriculum so that it is consistently taught well across all subjects"; "Leaders should ensure that all staff have clarity about pupils' special educational needs and/or disabilities to ensure learning opportunities are consistently and precisely matched to these needs"; "Leaders should continue to develop their work on language acquisition in the early years so that opportunities for high-quality interactions are consistently maximised for all pupils".

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils at Outwoods Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 75% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 77% in Staffordshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (72% in reading, 69% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 40 families put Outwoods Primary School as their first choice and 102 named it as one of their preferences, for 48 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 Outwoods Primary School are Burton Fields School (under 0.1 miles, Good, 58% reading, 51% maths); St Modwen's Catholic Primary School (0.2 miles); St Modwen's Catholic Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 78% reading, 75% maths); and Horninglow Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 66% reading, 45% maths).

Outwoods Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 3 schools.

Outwoods Primary School is one of 9 schools run by Central Co-Operative Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Outwoods Primary School had 26 teachers in 2026, one for every 16 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Burton-on-Trent Rail Station, about 1.7 miles away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is The Beacon Hotel (adjacent), 200 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Outwoods Primary School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 8th decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 132 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Staffordshire (86), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Outwoods Primary School issued 6 suspensions, 1.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.