Forest Glade Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire·NG17 4FL
Composite score
75.6
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#1,086
National rank
#74
In East Midlands
#13
In Nottinghamshire
Top 7%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
93%
% achieving higher RWM
13%
Reading average scaled score
112.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
112.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
92%
39 first choices, 36 places
First choices per place
1.08
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
132
any preference, for 36 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020230.9720241.1720251.082026

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

Nottinghamshire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Forest Glade Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
234
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
9.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,543
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Forest Glade Primary School is a primary school serving Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 234 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 93% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 3.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 7% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 112 in reading and 112 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Forest Glade Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 39 first choices for 36 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.7%. There are about 20.5 pupils per teacher. Forest Glade 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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