Maidwell Primary School
Community school · Northampton · NN6 9JF
Ages 4–11 · 67 pupils · West Northamptonshire
Ofsted
Not judged
KS2 expected (RWM)
80%
Overall absence
3.4%
Admissions demand
1.30 · Competitive
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-01-21
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- 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
- 111.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 108.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 109.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 2.8%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 58
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.30 · Competitive
1st preferences
13
Places offered
10
1st-preference offers
10
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 27
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 10
- Applications from outside LA
- 4
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 1
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
67 pupils · 70 places
- Pupils on roll
- 67
- Boys / girls
- 36 / 31
- School capacity
- 70
- Capacity fill
- 67 / 70 (96%)
- Free school meals
- 1.5%
- FSM pupils
- 1
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Mr Geoff Woods
Location
- Address
- Draughton Road, Maidwell
- Postcode
- NN6 9JF
- Town
- Northampton
- County
- Northamptonshire
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
- District
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Nearer to 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 community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Northampton, West Northamptonshire, 67 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 1.5%.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Geoff Woods
- Telephone
- 01604686240