The Valley Primary School
Ofsted: GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Stoke-on-Trent · ST10 3DQ · Staffordshire
Ages 4–11
- KS250%
- Absence5.0%
- FSM20.5%
- Demand1.00
0.8 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: Not judgedURN 138722
The Faber Catholic Primary School
Academy converter · Stoke-on-Trent · ST10 3DN
Ages 3–11 · 72 pupils · Staffordshire
Ofsted
Not judged
KS2 expected (RWM)
78%
Overall absence
5.0%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-05-20
- 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)
Expected standard (RWM)78%
Higher standard (RWM)22%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 108.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence5.0%
Persistent absence (10%+)9.5%
Unauthorised1.1%
- Authorised absence
- 3.9%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 3.2%
- Enrolments in measure
- 63
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
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
12
Places offered
12
1st-preference offers
12
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 24
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 12
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
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).
Capacity fill90%
72 pupils · 80 places
- Pupils on roll
- 72
- Boys / girls
- 38 / 34
- School capacity
- 80
- Capacity fill
- 72 / 80 (90%)
- Free school meals
- 7.1%
- FSM pupils
- 5
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Birmingham
- Governance
- Academy trust: ST GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- ST GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Baxter
Location
- Address
- Cotton Lane, Cotton
- Postcode
- ST10 3DN
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- County
- Staffordshire
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- District
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- 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 academy converter (primary), Ages 3–11, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 72 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 7.1%. Religious character: Roman Catholic. Diocese: Archdiocese of Birmingham.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
St Peter's CofE Academy Alton
Ofsted: School remains GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Stoke-on-Trent · ST10 4AW · Staffordshire
Ages 5–9
- Absence6.2%
- FSM0.0%
- Demand1.00
2.2 miles away
Other independent special school
Staffordshire · ST10 3ER · Staffordshire
Ages 11–17
1.5 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Baxter
- Telephone
- 01538702324