Astley Primary School
Academy converter · Melton Constable · NR24 2HH
Ages 5–11 · 200 pupils · Norfolk
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
42%
Overall absence
6.5%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2021-11-23
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 100.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 96.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 183
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
200 pupils · 210 places
- Pupils on roll
- 200
- Boys / girls
- 91 / 109
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 200 / 210 (95%)
- Free school meals
- 27%
- FSM pupils
- 54
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 5–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: SYNERGY MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- SYNERGY MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Synergy Multi Academy Trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jennifer Goakes
Location
- Address
- Fakenham Road
- Postcode
- NR24 2HH
- Town
- Melton Constable
- County
- Norfolk
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- District
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 5–11, in Melton Constable, Norfolk, 200 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 27%.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jennifer Goakes
- Telephone
- 01263860212