Eastfield Academy
General Information
- Address: St Albans Close, Northampton, NN3 2RJ – View on map
- Phone: 01604405042
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Peter Fairbrother
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 23 families put it first for 23 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 65
- % eligible for free school meals: 33.5%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the West Northamptonshire average)
- English as an additional language: 63% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.9% a year (West Northamptonshire 16.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 23% moved to another school, 77% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across West Northamptonshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 12 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 9 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in West Northamptonshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 19.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 10 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 82% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 21% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 19 percentage points above the West Northamptonshire average (63%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 70% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 70%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 86% · Writing 86% · Maths 89% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 82%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 109
- Based on: 28 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 13th of 139 junior and primary schools in the area
- =10Silverstone Church of England Primary School83%
- =10The Arbours Primary Academy83%
- =13Eastfield Academy82%
- =13The Bliss Charity School82%
- #15Preston Hedges Primary School81%
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38th of 109 primary schools in West Northamptonshire for Ofsted rating
- #36Delapre Primary SchoolGood
- #37East Hunsbury Primary SchoolGood
- #38Eastfield AcademyGood
- #39Flore Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #40Gayton Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,243 (2024-25)
92nd of 138 primary schools in West Northamptonshire for spending per pupil
- #90St James Infant School£6,286
- #91Harpole Primary School£6,252
- #92Eastfield Academy£6,243
- #93Braunston Church of England Primary School£6,242
- #94Crick Primary School£6,215
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