Guest, Sign inJoin
B

West Road Primary Academy

PrimaryAges 2–11Academy

Moorends, DN8 4LH · Doncaster local authority

Moorends’s School Grade B− better than 49% of towns in England

Its letter
63%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
25/25
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
276 pupils
64% of its 428 places
Free school meals
39%
39 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about West Road Primary Academy

  • Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 63% of England’s primary schools
  • 67% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5 points above England’s schools
  • Room to spare: 276 pupils for 428 places
  • 39% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (25 of 25)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (DN8 4) sold for a median £145,000; Moorends’s is £126,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 67%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 63% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Doncaster avg 61%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%West Road Primary 67%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading69%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)78%
England’s schools 73%
Maths82%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling73%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 25 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
60%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
67%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three6%
England’s schools 8% · Doncaster 6% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at West Road Primary Academy?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

25
families put it first for September 2026
26
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. Brighter Futures Learning Partnership Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Doncaster council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.30 per place
77% got their first choice
1.04 per place
96% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
West Road Primary
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.88 per place
100% got their first choice

Moorends and Doncaster, side by side

2023–2025

All 88 graded primaries in Doncaster. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Moorends’s schools are coloured by their letter.

25%37%49%61%73%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Marshland PrimaryWest Road Primary
ABCDElsewhere in DoncasterWest Road Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Arksey Primary SchoolA+18%86%
Crookesbroom Primary AcademyA+34%85%
Southfield PrimaryA+12%85%
Hatfield Woodhouse Primary SchoolA+16%83%
Tickhill Estfeld Primary SchoolA6%79%
Auckley Primary AcademyA9%77%
St Oswald's CofE AcademyA7%77%
Edlington Victoria AcademyA53%77%
Montagu AcademyA43%77%
Bentley High Street Primary SchoolA−39%75%
Willow Primary SchoolA−11%74%
Hill Top AcademyA−30%73%
Branton St Wilfrid's Church of England Primary SchoolA−9%71%
Carr Lodge AcademyA−17%71%
Bessacarr PrimaryA−5%71%
Castle AcademyA−41%71%
Scawthorpe Castle Hills Primary AcademyA−20%71%
Warmsworth Primary SchoolB+17%70%
Rossington St Michael's CofE Primary SchoolB+17%70%
Bawtry Mayflower Primary SchoolB+19%69%
Tickhill St Mary's Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolB+12%69%
Copley Junior SchoolB+9%68%
Pheasant Bank AcademyB+45%68%
Kirk Sandall Junior SchoolB+21%68%
Marshland Primary AcademyB+38%68%
Intake Primary AcademyB36%67%
Canon Popham CofE Primary AcademyB9%67%
West Road Primary AcademyB39%67%
Sheep Dip Lane AcademyB52%67%
Barnby Dun Primary AcademyB14%66%
Armthorpe Shaw Wood AcademyB23%66%
Adwick Primary SchoolB24%66%
Highfields Primary AcademyB67%65%
St Joseph's School, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyB15%65%
Waverley AcademyB43%65%
Morley Place AcademyB−50%64%
Highwoods AcademyB−51%64%
Windhill Primary SchoolB−41%63%
Dunsville Primary SchoolB−25%63%
Richmond Hill Primary AcademyB−10%63%
Kingfisher Primary AcademyB−34%63%
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Voluntary AcademyB−20%62%
Hooton Pagnell All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolB−6%62%
St Alban's Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolB−29%62%
Scawsby Junior AcademyB−18%62%
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolB−31%61%
St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolB−16%61%
Hayfield Lane Primary SchoolC+14%60%
Tranmoor PrimaryC+24%60%
Barnburgh Primary AcademyC+12%60%
Scawthorpe Sunnyfields Primary SchoolC+21%59%
Mexborough St John the Baptist CofE Primary SchoolC+29%59%
Norton Junior SchoolC+19%59%
Woodfield Primary SchoolC+36%58%
Travis St Lawrence Church of England Primary SchoolC+14%58%
Edenthorpe Hall Primary AcademyC27%57%
Sandringham Primary SchoolC31%57%
Plover Primary SchoolC39%57%
Town Field Primary SchoolC28%57%
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Primary SchoolC34%56%
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, EdlingtonC26%56%
Long Toft Primary SchoolC53%56%
Brooke Primary AcademyC31%56%
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary SchoolC13%55%
Thorne King Edward Primary SchoolC32%54%
Kirkby Avenue Primary SchoolC32%54%
Rosedale Primary SchoolC30%54%
Outwood Primary Academy WoodlandsC50%54%
Park Primary SchoolC−31%52%
Hawthorn Primary SchoolC−43%52%
St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary SchoolC−19%51%
Owston Park Primary AcademyC−34%51%
Hatchell Wood Primary AcademyC−26%50%
Spa Academy AskernC−51%49%
Conisbrough Ivanhoe Primary AcademyC−34%48%
Denaby Main Primary AcademyC−64%48%
Balby Central Primary AcademyD38%47%
New Pastures Primary SchoolD36%47%
Toll Bar Primary SchoolD70%45%
Wadworth Primary SchoolD15%44%
St Joseph and St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolD35%44%
Bentley New Village Primary SchoolD49%43%
Stainforth Kirton Lane Primary SchoolD46%42%
Lakeside Primary AcademyD30%40%
Green TopD22%39%
Carcroft Primary SchoolD−56%30%
Hexthorpe Primary SchoolD−58%28%
Atlas AcademyD−47%28%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

302 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.

SEN support
20.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
11.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
43.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 44%Boys 56%
Its letter

West Road Primary Academy’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths BBetter than 63% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), February 2025. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), November 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near West Road Primary Academy

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in DN8 4, the school’s postcode sector

Moorends property prices →
£145,000
median sale, 315 sales in 36 months · Moorends £126,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025DN8 4Moorends
DN8 4Moorends

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£221K
Semi-detached
£135K
Terraced
£128K
DN8 4Moorends

Homes in DN8 4 sell for well over Moorends’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

5 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCCDCB+BWest Road Primary Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Moorends, DN8 4LH

West Road Primary Academy: common questions

Is West Road Primary Academy a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 63% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 67% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025.

How hard is it to get into West Road Primary Academy?

For September 2026, 25 families put West Road Primary Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 26 places were offered in all.

What is West Road Primary Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (February 2025).

How much do houses cost near West Road Primary Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, DN8 4, sold for a median £145,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (315 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; Moorends’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.