Weston Junior Academy, Stoke-on-Trent

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades Weston Junior Academy on 6 areas: 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Overall, across the curriculum, pupils gain a body of knowledge that prepares them well for secondary school."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders and governors prioritise attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders, with the support of the trust, have constructed a suitably well sequenced curriculum."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Inclusion and equity are visible in everyday school life."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have a firm understanding of the school's context."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have constructed a personal development programme that is tailored to meet the needs of pupils who live in the local area."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff deliver the curriculum consistently well in English and mathematics, including checking pupils' understanding during lessons and securing key foundational skills in writing so that pupils can deepen their knowledge and achieve as well as they should"; "Leaders should make sure that specific targets set for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are sharply focused to secure the best possible outcomes".

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils at Weston Junior Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 66% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 73% in Stoke-on-Trent and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 75% in reading and 73% in maths in 2024.

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

Across Stoke-on-Trent, 94% of families were offered their first-choice primary school for 2026 entry, and 97% were offered one of the schools they named.

In 2026, families in Stoke-on-Trent lodged 56 appeals against primary school offers; 38 reached a hearing and 3 succeeded (7.9% of those heard).

The nearest other state primary schools to Weston Junior Academy are Park Hall Academy (0.3 miles, Good, 77% reading, 80% maths); Weston Infant Academy (0.5 miles, Good); The Crescent Academy (0.7 miles, Good, 78% reading, 79% maths); and Alexandra Junior School (0.8 miles, Good, 57% reading, 54% maths).

Weston Junior Academy's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

Weston Junior Academy is one of 23 schools run by St Bart's Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

6.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 29 pupils (17.6%) received SEN support and 3 (1.8%) 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 a moderate learning difficulty.

Weston Junior Academy has a SEN unit for other difficulties or disabilities, speech, language and communication needs and autism: 32 places, 0 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Platform 1, about 1.6 miles away in a straight line.

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Coyney Grove (adjacent), 160 metres away.

In 2024/25, Weston Junior Academy issued 5 suspensions, 2.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Weston Junior Academy are Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams (0.3 miles), Ormiston Meridian Academy (1.4 miles) and Discovery Academy (1.5 miles).