Woodfield Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Plymouth·PL5 4HW
Composite score
45.6
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National rank
#898
In South West
#37
In Plymouth
Top 60%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
63%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
17 first choices, 19 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
26
any preference, for 19 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.22
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9220220.9620231.2320241.1120250.902026

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

Every child who put Woodfield 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
235
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
48.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
17.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
14.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,621
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Woodfield Primary School at a glance

Located in Plymouth, Woodfield Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 235 pupils aged 2 to 11. 63% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 4.0 percentage points year on 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 105 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Woodfield Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 19 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 49% 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. Woodfield 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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