Sladewood Academy
Stroud, GL5 1NL · Gloucestershire local authority
Stroud’s School Grade A− better than 76% of towns in England
What stands out about Sladewood Academy
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Over capacity: 64 pupils for 60 places
- 36% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Homes in its postcode sector (GL5 1) sold for a median £316,500; Stroud’s is £300,000
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 202555 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
No letter for Sladewood Academy
Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.
Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting June 2026.
Living near Sladewood Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in GL5 1, the school’s postcode sector
Stroud property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in GL5 1 sell for a little over Stroud’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
7 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Stroud, GL5 1NL
Sladewood Academy: common questions
What is Sladewood Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Sladewood Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, GL5 1, sold for a median £316,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (344 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Stroud’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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