Weldon Village Academy
Weldon, NN17 3GE · North Northamptonshire local authority
Weldon’s School Grade B− better than 51% of towns in England
What stands out about Weldon Village Academy
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Room to spare: 475 pupils for 1,500 places
- 17% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted report card, July 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- 88% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (127 of 145)
- Homes in its postcode sector (NN17 3) sold for a median £320,000; Weldon’s is £296,870
How hard is it to get a place at Weldon Village Academy?
88% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2024 (16), 2025 (39), 2026 (18). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Meridian Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through North Northamptonshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
88% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025293 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 Weldon Village Academy
No published GCSE results: a new school with no Year 11 yet, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.
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 July 2026.
Living near Weldon Village Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in NN17 3, the school’s postcode sector
Weldon property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in NN17 3 sell for a little over Weldon’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
3 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Weldon, NN17 3GE
Weldon Village Academy: common questions
How hard is it to get into Weldon Village Academy?
For September 2026, 145 families put Weldon Village Academy first and 127 of them were offered a place; 150 places were offered in all.
What is Weldon Village Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (July 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 Weldon Village Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, NN17 3, sold for a median £320,000 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; Weldon’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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