Bursley Academy

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Newcastle, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2024

1.036 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2024

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Bursley Academy is a primary school in Newcastle, Staffordshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 20 February 2024. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 entry.

Bursley Academy catchment area: last distance offered

Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.

Entry	Last distance offered
Reception 2024	1.036 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

For Reception entry in 2024, the last child offered a place lived 1.036 miles from the school, the 5th shortest of 17 Staffordshire primary schools with a published last distance.
Reception entry in 2026 saw 56 first-choice applications for 57 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
2024/25: 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
The school has 25.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Bursley Way, Bradwell, Newcastle, ST5 8JQ
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 400 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 16% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 25.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Requires improvement Inspected 20 February 2024

Strengths

“The family feel of Bursley Academy is tangible the minute you walk through the doors.”
“Caring relationships between staff and pupils are built into the foundations of the school.”
“Pupils trust the staff to look after them, they describe the staff as their ‘guardians’.”

To improve

“They know that more work needs to be done to further improve the quality of education, so that pupils achieve well across the curriculum.”
“However, if the work set for pupils is not matched to their needs, they become distracted and lose interest.”
“However, in a small number of subjects, there is more work to be done.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Exam results

Measure	School	England
Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25)	67%	62%

Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 56 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 56 offers to first-preference applicants.

Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.

Nearby primary schools

Straight-line distance, in Staffordshire.

Sun Academy Bradwell 0.3 mi School remains Good
Chesterton Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
Churchfields Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged
Crackley Bank Primary School 0.9 mi Good
Ellison Primary Academy 1.0 mi Good
St Chad's CofE (C) Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good
St Margaret's CofE (VC) Junior School 1.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
St Wulstan's Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published