1Heron Cross Primary School
Stoke-on-Trent · ages 3 to 11 · URN124003
396 pupils / 408 at Joseph Turner Primary School2025/26 · Academic year
Remove from comparison- Free school meals: 0.6 percentage points higher
- First language other than English: the same
- SEND: 1.13 percentage points higher
- 12 fewer pupils
Sources, Ofsted & match details
- Report card inspection · inspected 20 January 2026 · published 4 March 2026 · monthly file dated 30 September 2026
Safeguarding standards: Met; Inclusion: Strong standard; Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Graded inspection (previous framework) · inspected 30 November 2021 · published 25 January 2022 · monthly file dated 30 September 2026
Overall effectiveness: Good; Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good; Safeguarding is effective: Yes; Early years: Good
Matching score and calculation
Score -0.0221. A lower score means more similar pupil context. It is not a school rating or a percentage.
- FSM eligible (current eligibility): difference 0.6 percentage points; weight 45%; contribution 0.00270.
- First language other than English: difference 0 percentage points; weight 25%; contribution 0.00000.
- SEN support and EHC plans (derived percentage): difference 1.13 percentage points; weight 20%; contribution 0.00226.
- Total pupils: difference 12 pupils; weight 10%; contribution 0.00294.
- region: same published context; contribution -0.01000.
- faith: same published context; contribution -0.01000.
- governance: same published context; contribution -0.01000.