The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Waterwells Primary Academy

URN 139693 · Primary · Academy sponsor led · Gloucestershire

Boulmer Avenue, Gloucester, GL2 2FX

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 21 families named Waterwells Primary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 23 offers.

That is 0.91 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 25% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 25% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.96 in 2021–2022 and 0.94 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 21 78 23 0.91
2024 30 83 31 0.97
2023 31 88 35 0.89
2022 47 96 48 0.98
2021 30 98 32 0.94
2020 62 116 60 1.03
2019 67 125 59 1.14
2018 58 136 60 0.97
2017 88 164 60 1.47
2016 84 181 59 1.42
2015 54 125 60 0.90
2014 57 115 55 1.04

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 5 October 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 59.0% 2.0% 106.0 105.0
2023/24 38.0% 0.0% 105.0 101.0
2022/23 46.0% 2.0% 103.0 101.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 14.2 12.2 1.0 1.0 14.1%
2023/24 16.8 12.4 0.0 4.4 26.2%
2022/23 20.8 14.0 5.8 1.0 32.7%
2021/22 20.6 18.6 1.0 1.0 9.7%
2020/21 20.6 18.6 0.0 2.0 9.7%
2019/20 23.1 18.5 3.4 1.2 19.9%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Waterwells Primary Academy.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.