Weston Mill Community Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Plymouth·PL2 2EL
Composite score
38.1
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#11,532
National rank
#1192
In South West
#51
In Plymouth
Top 78%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
46%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
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
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
12 first choices, 13 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
25
any preference, for 13 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9120220.7720230.9420240.9220250.922026

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

Every child who put Weston Mill Community Primary Academy 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
207
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
49.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
7.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
22.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
33.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,578
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Weston Mill Community Primary Academy at a glance

Located in Plymouth, Weston Mill Community Primary Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 207 pupils aged 2 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 46% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 20.0 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 102 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Weston Mill Community Primary Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 12 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 9.8%. There are about 20.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 50% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Weston Mill Community Primary Academy 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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