Warwick Academy
General Information
- Address: Dulley Avenue, Wellingborough, NN8 2PS – View on map
- Phone: 01933446900
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Catherine Starnes
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 14 families put it first for 14 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 8 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 101
- % eligible for free school meals: 39.1%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the North Northamptonshire average)
- English as an additional language: 26% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 46.2% a year (North Northamptonshire 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 67% moved to another school, 33% 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.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across North Northamptonshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 10 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 10 (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 North 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: 6.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 15 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points above the North Northamptonshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 64% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 64%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 77% · Writing 83% · Maths 83% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 62%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 103
- Based on: 53 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 17th of 91 junior and primary schools in the area
- =17Geddington Church of England Primary School72%
- =17Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Primary School72%
- =17Warwick Academy72%
- #20Irchester Community Primary School71%
- =21Hall Meadow Primary School70%
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58th of 65 primary schools in North Northamptonshire for Ofsted rating
- #56Victoria Primary AcademyGood
- #57Warmington SchoolGood
- #58Warwick AcademyGood
- #59Whitefriars Primary SchoolGood
- #60Wilbarston Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,935 (2024-25)
48th of 83 primary schools in North Northamptonshire for spending per pupil
- #46Trinity Church of England Primary School£6,038
- #47Stanion Church of England (Aided) Primary School£5,937
- #48Warwick Academy£5,935
- #49Gretton Primary Academy£5,910
- #50Woodford Church of England Primary School£5,842
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