Ashby Fields Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Daventry, West Northamptonshire·NN11 0YP
Composite score
49.8
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#7,325
National rank
#593
In East Midlands
#60
In West Northamptonshire
Top 50%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
73%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
49 first choices, 55 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
100
any preference, for 55 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8620220.6920230.7120240.8620250.892026

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

Every child who put Ashby Fields 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
395
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
29.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
9.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
27.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,177
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Ashby Fields Primary School at a glance

Located in Daventry, West Northamptonshire, Ashby Fields Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 395 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 73% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 8.0 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 around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Ashby Fields Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 49 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 27.6 pupils per teacher. Ashby Fields 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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