Sandal Magna Community Academy
Ofsted: Good
Score
C60
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Wakefield, WF1 5NF
- Distance
- 1.2km away
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School
Barnsley Road, Wakefield, WF2 6AS
Local ranking94th of 111 primary schools in Wakefield
Ofsted: Requires improvementUpdated— score data refreshed 2 August 2026
Primary
Phase
630
Capacity
4-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 7 January 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership & management
- Good
- Early years
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 45.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 3.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 55.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 64.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 61.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 57.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 102.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 102.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 103.0
- Cohort Size
- 88
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 618
- Boys
- 343 (56%)
- Girls
- 275 (44%)
- Capacity
- 630 (98% full)
- SEND
- 24.9%
- FSM Eligible
- 24.6%
- EAL
- 33.7%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 4.0%
- SEN Support
- 20.9%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 23.2:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 26.6
- Budget per Pupil
- £6,013/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 5.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 13.7% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Church of England
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 52.8%
- Asian Pakistani: 13.8%
- White Other: 13.0%
- Black African: 6.8%
- Mixed White & Black African: 3.1%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.8%
- Mixed Other: 2.4%
- Other: 1.9%
52.8%
White British
13.8%
Asian Pakistani
13.0%
White Other
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Barnsley Road
Wakefield, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 108270
- UKPRN
- 10075788
- Establishment No.
- 3339
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