John Blow is a primary school in Collingham, in the Newark area, with about 170 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 100% of its pupils met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 62% locally and 61% nationally.placeholder image
John Blow is a primary school in Collingham, in the Newark area, with about 170 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 100% of its pupils met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 62% locally and 61% nationally. | Google

Nottinghamshire's top 14 state primary schools of 2024 named - in new government performance data

Amber Allott
By Amber Allott

Education & science writer

Published 17th Dec 2024, 15:18 GMT

These schools are the county’s best of the best 🏆

Nottinghamshire’s highest achieving primary schools of the most recent academic year have been named, in new government performance figures.

The government’s latest preliminary performance figures for state-funded primary schools were released last week, shortly after it published delayed performance figures for secondary schools. Using this data, we’ve created a league table comparing state primary schools across the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County Council areas, based on how they did in one key measure - the the proportion of their pupils who completed Year 6 in the 2023/24 school year, who met the government’s expected standards in reading, writing and maths.

We’ve included only Nottinghamshire’s highest performing primary schools in the last academic year. We also made sure each one also had an overall Ofsted rating of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before this measure was recently dropped, or, if they’ve been inspected more recently, had at least ‘good’ grades across the board. This means that the quality of education provided, student behaviour and attitudes, school leadership and management and student safeguarding were all found to meet or exceed government standards last time the school was inspected.

Here were the 14 schools from across Nottinghamshire that came out on top:

St Teresa’s is a Catholic primary school in Nottingham, with a roll size of about 420. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 90% of its pupils once again met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 59% locally and 61% nationally.

5. St Teresa's Catholic Primary School

St Teresa’s is a Catholic primary school in Nottingham, with a roll size of about 420. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 90% of its pupils once again met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 59% locally and 61% nationally. | Google

This is a primary school in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, with about 247 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it too had 90% of its pupils meet the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 62% locally and 61% nationally.

6. The West Park Academy

This is a primary school in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, with about 247 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it too had 90% of its pupils meet the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 62% locally and 61% nationally. | Google

This is a primary school in Nottingham, with about 237 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 89% of its pupils met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 59% locally and 61% nationally.

7. Edna G. Olds Academy

This is a primary school in Nottingham, with about 237 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 89% of its pupils met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 59% locally and 61% nationally. | Google

Mapplewells is another primary school in Sutton-in-Ashfield, with about 344 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 89% of its pupils also met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 62% locally and 61% nationally.

8. Mapplewells Primary and Nursery School

Mapplewells is another primary school in Sutton-in-Ashfield, with about 344 pupils. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, 89% of its pupils also met the government’s expected standard in reading, writing and maths - compared to averages of 62% locally and 61% nationally. | Google

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