St Mary Magdalene CofE Primary School, Sutton-in-Ashfield
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
St Mary Magdalene is a nurturing school where every child matters. Staff build strong relationships with pupils and families, providing calm, caring support that helps children feel they belong. The school offers a wealth of enrichment activities and life experiences, from residential trips to learning important skills like swimming and cooking.
Key Strengths
- Strong safeguarding culture with an open and positive approach that makes pupils feel safe
- Excellent pastoral care and wellbeing support, including 'keeping in touch' sessions and nurture programs
- Well-designed broad curriculum with a focus on phonics, reading and mathematics from early years
- Caring approach to behaviour management that creates an inclusive and respectful ethos
- Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and disadvantaged pupils
Areas for Improvement
- Achievement at the end of Year 6 is below expected standards in reading and mathematics
- Disadvantaged pupils' outcomes at key stage 2 have not yet shown full impact of additional support
- In a small number of subjects, learning activities do not consistently support pupils to achieve as well as they could
- Early years learning environment does not fully promote children's independent writing
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
After-school clubs including cheerleading and board games, educational visits to historical sites, seaside and theatres, residential trips, outdoor and adventurous activities, swimming, cooking, den-making, go-kart building
St Mary Magdalene CofE Primary School is a caring, inclusive school with strong safeguarding and pastoral support. However, pupils' achievement at the end of Year 6 is below expected standards in reading and mathematics, though leaders are taking effective action to address this.
At a Glance
16.6%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 70% to 57%. Maths has improved from 53% to 67%. Writing has declined from 77% to 67%.
Class Sizes
29.6
Avg class size
29.0
Infant (KS1)
30.0
KS2
7
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
98%
Near capacity
205 pupils
210 capacity
5 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Sutton-in-Ashfield
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Sutton-in-Ashfield
Admissions Demand - Nottinghamshire
Places available
10,563
Applications
7,998
Got 1st preference
95.8%
Got preferred school
99.4%
Primary admissions across Nottinghamshire (2025/26)
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.72514%
Overall absence
13.11475%
Persistent absence
183
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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