Stockton Primary School, Southam

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades Stockton Primary School on 7 areas: 3 expected standard and 4 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 prioritise pupils' attendance and maintain accurate oversight of patterns and trends."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders understand the school's context and care deeply about the community that they serve."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have established a thoughtful programme for personal development that supports pupils' wider growth effectively."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Published outcomes indicate that many pupils achieve in line with national averages, including a higher proportion achieving greater depth in some areas."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Leaders have identified the right priorities for improvement in curriculum design, teaching and the use of assessment."

Early years - Needs attention. "Leaders have recently made changes to the early years provision, including staffing structures."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Some disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) do not make the progress they should."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teaching and assessment build consistently on pupils' starting points so that pupils, particularly disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make improved progress through the curriculum"; "Leaders should ensure that the teaching of phonics, reading and early writing is implemented consistently well so that pupils develop secure foundations from the start of school"; "Leaders should ensure that assessment and curriculum implementation in the early years, particularly in the Reception Year, support children to build knowledge and skills progressively over time"; "Leaders and those responsible for governance should ensure that staffing structures in school enable leaders to monitor provision, to help secure improvements, more regularly"; "Leaders, and those responsible for governance, should ensure that their systems enable improvement. This includes ensuring that resources required to improve the school are provided swiftly".

From the headteacher's welcome: "From these pages I hope you will gain an insight into the nature of our school."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include cooking and art.

In 2025, 86% of Year 6 pupils at Stockton Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 81% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 77% and 74% in Warwickshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 73% in reading and 82% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 18 families put Stockton Primary School as their first choice and 49 named it as one of their preferences, for 14 places offered. That is 1.3 first choices for every place. 4 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Stockton Primary School are Long Itchington CofE Academy (1.3 miles, Requires improvement, 69% reading, 66% maths); Southam St James CofE Academy (1.4 miles, Requires improvement, 78% reading, 67% maths); St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Southam (1.5 miles); and Southam Primary School (1.6 miles, Good, 83% reading, 83% maths).

Stockton Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

Stockton Primary School is one of 14 schools run by Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 65% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

8.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 1.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 19 pupils (12.8%) received SEN support and 2 (1.3%) 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.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Stockton Primary School.

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Post Office (adjacent), 90 metres away.

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

In August 2026, police recorded 2 crimes within a mile of the school, most often burglary and violence and sexual offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Warwickshire (88).

In 2024/25, Stockton Primary School issued 5 suspensions, 3.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.