Windmill Primary School

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire·NN9 6LA
Composite score
25.4
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#14,003
National rank
#1325
In East Midlands
#92
In North Northamptonshire
Top 95%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
39%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
24 first choices, 27 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
47
any preference, for 27 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.9820230.7120240.8820250.892026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Windmill Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
370
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
10.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
8.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,449
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

School overview

Windmill Primary School is a primary school serving Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 370 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 39% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 6.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 101 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Windmill Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 24 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 23.9 pupils per teacher. Windmill Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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