West Road Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Doncaster·DN8 4LH
Composite score
48.0
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#8,007
National rank
#801
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#47
In Doncaster
Top 54%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
63%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
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%
25 first choices, 26 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
28
any preference, for 26 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put West Road 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
302
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
43.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
11.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,212
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

West Road Primary Academy is a primary school serving Doncaster, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 302 pupils aged 2 to 11 on roll. 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 fallen by 2.0 percentage points compared with 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 103 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% 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 West Road Primary Academy their first choice was offered one of its 26 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.7%. There are about 21.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 44% 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. West Road 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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