River View Primary and Nursery School, Burton-on-Trent

River View Primary and Nursery School has no published results of its own yet. Before it took its current form in 2025, under its previous registration (URN 135281), 43% of its Year 6 pupils reached the expected standard in reading and 31% in maths in the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments.

For September 2026 entry, 34 families put River View Primary and Nursery School as their first choice and 56 named it as one of their preferences, for 35 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 River View Primary and Nursery School are Edge Hill Academy (0.5 miles, Good, 78% reading, 77% maths); The Violet Way Academy (0.7 miles, Good); Drakelow Park Flying High Academy (0.9 miles); and Lift Anglesey (1 mile, Good, 88% reading, 92% maths).

River View Primary and Nursery School is one of 7 schools run by Endeavour Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

43.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 26.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (55%), Asian (10%) and Mixed (9%).

In 2026, 83 pupils (19.9%) received SEN support and 27 (6.5%) 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.

River View Primary and Nursery School has a SEN unit for speech, language and communication needs and autism: 16 places, 13 pupils on roll.

River View Primary and Nursery School had 26 teachers in 2026, one for every 15 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 1.4 miles away in a straight line.

22 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is No. 53 (adjacent), 130 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood River View Primary and Nursery School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 207 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 Staffordshire (86), as is usual near a town centre.

The secondary schools closest to River View Primary and Nursery School are Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary Academy (0.7 miles), Paulet High School (0.7 miles), Paget High School (1.1 miles) and Abbot Beyne School (1.6 miles).