Woodvale Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Northampton, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Woodvale Primary Academy is a primary school in Northampton, West Northamptonshire for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 December 2023. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Woodvale Primary 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 had 46 first-choice applications for 49 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place and 3 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 124 of the 141 other West Northamptonshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 51% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 24.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Northamptonshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Crestwood Road, Lings Way, Northampton, NN3 8JJ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 449 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 December 2023
Strengths
- “The school values of ‘strive, support and succeed’ are lived out by pupils and staff at the school.”
- “As one pupil, typical of many, said, ‘Some people start nervous but get to do many different things which builds their confidence.”
- “Pupils and staff appreciate the teamwork and know that they can always ask for help.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, the curriculum does not always prepare children for Year 1 and beyond.”
- “However, in a few subjects, the curriculum does not clearly set out the precise knowledge and vocabulary that pupils need to learn.”
- “However, in some subjects, checks on what pupils know and remember are not yet in place.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 January 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) | 51% | 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: 46 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 46 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 West Northamptonshire.
- Lings Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Lumbertubs Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Thorplands Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Blackthorn Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The Arbours Primary Academy 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Rectory Farm Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Boothville Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published