1Castle Academy
West Northamptonshire · ages 3 to 11 · URN140362
455 pupils / 433 at St Mary's Fields Academy2025/26 · Academic year
Add to comparison- Safeguarding standards: Met
- Inclusion: Expected 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
- Free school meals: 2.8 percentage points lower
- First language other than English: 3.6 percentage points higher
- SEND: 0.97 percentage points higher
- 22 more pupils
Sources, Ofsted & match details
- Report card inspection · inspected 6 May 2026 · published 28 June 2026 · monthly file dated 30 September 2026
Safeguarding standards: Met; Inclusion: Expected 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
- Ungraded inspection (previous framework) · inspected 12 January 2022 · published 7 February 2022 · monthly file dated 30 September 2026
Outcome: School remains Good
Matching score and calculation
Score -0.00163. A lower score means more similar pupil context. It is not a school rating or a percentage.
- FSM eligible (current eligibility): difference 2.8 percentage points; weight 45%; contribution 0.01260.
- First language other than English: difference 3.6 percentage points; weight 25%; contribution 0.00900.
- SEN support and EHC plans (derived percentage): difference 0.97 percentage points; weight 20%; contribution 0.00193.
- Total pupils: difference 22 pupils; weight 10%; contribution 0.00484.
- region: same published context; contribution -0.01000.
- faith: same published context; contribution -0.01000.
- governance: same published context; contribution -0.01000.