Voluntary aided school · Primary
Tamworth · B79 8EN · Staffordshire
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.1 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 140522
Lark Hall Infant & Nursery Academy
Academy converter · Tamworth · B79 8EF
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–7
Pupils
100
Local authority
Staffordshire
Age range
Ages 3–7
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
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 3–7, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, 100 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 37.1%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 140522
Location
- Address
- Clifton Avenue
- Postcode
- B79 8EF
- Town
- Tamworth
- County
- Staffordshire
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- District
- Tamworth
- Constituency
- Tamworth
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 100
- Boys / girls
- 46 / 54
- School capacity
- 120
- Capacity fill
- 100 / 120 (83%)
- Free school meals
- 37.1%
- FSM pupils
- 33
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: MERCIA PRIMARY ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- MERCIA PRIMARY ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Mercia Primary Academy Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Richard Lane
- Telephone
- 01827215333
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-03-03
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
5.5%
Persistent absence
11.7%
Unauthorised
1.7%
- Authorised absence
- 3.8%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 60
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 7.1% · Persistent 24.6%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.7% · Persistent 19.7%