Thrumpton Primary Academy, Retford

Ofsted's report card from its 14 April 2026 inspection grades Thrumpton Primary Academy 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. "As pupils progress through the school, they develop the knowledge and skills they need to be successful across the wider curriculum."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "The school promotes the importance of high attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The school has a curriculum model which is carefully sequenced so that pupils build their learning securely."

Early years - Expected standard. "The early years curriculum is designed effectively to meet the needs of the children."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have established an inclusive school culture."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "The school leadership is new since the previous inspection."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The school provides a wide range of opportunities that support pupils' personal development and wellbeing."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that detailed analysis and monitoring of interventions for disadvantaged pupils underpin their decisions for how best to support these pupils to achieve well"; "Leaders should further develop assessment practice so that all teachers use the information they have to make highly effective choices about what to teach next and what interventions to provide"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils develop a secure and detailed knowledge of fundamental British values to better prepare them for life in modern Britain".

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils at Thrumpton Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 96% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 77% and 76% in Nottinghamshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 79% in reading and 61% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 20 families put Thrumpton Primary Academy as their first choice and 66 named it as one of their preferences, for 20 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Thrumpton Primary Academy are Bracken Lane Primary Academy (0.4 miles, Good, 86% reading, 86% maths); Ordsall Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 64% reading, 67% maths); St Swithun's Church of England Primary Academy (0.7 miles, Requires improvement, 50% reading, 25% maths); and St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (1 mile, Good, 80% reading, 73% maths).

Thrumpton Primary Academy's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Thrumpton Primary Academy is one of 16 schools run by Diverse Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 51% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

33.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 5.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 41 pupils (18.4%) received SEN support and 3 (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.

Thrumpton Primary Academy had 13 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 Retford Low Level Rail Station, about 500 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Thrumpton School (adjacent), 140 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 206 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 Nottinghamshire (101), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Thrumpton Primary Academy issued 4 suspensions, 1.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Thrumpton Primary Academy are Retford Oaks Academy (1 mile) and The Elizabethan Academy (1.5 miles).