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The Violet Way Academy

Primary school · Academy converter · ages 4 to 7 · Mixed

Violet Way, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent, DE15 9ES

  • Pupils251
  • Ages4 to 7
  • Latest Ofsted19 Mar 2024
  • FundingState-funded

Ofsted inspections

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Graded inspection · 19 Mar 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

  • Quality of educationGood
  • Behaviour and attitudesGood
  • Personal developmentGood
  • Leadership and managementGood
  • Early years provisionGood
  • Safeguarding is effectiveYes

Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).

S5 Inspection · report published 29 Apr 2024

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Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.

Results

No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.

Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.

Pupils and attendance

Pupils
251 (capacity 270)
126 girls, 125 boys
Eligible for free school meals
15.1% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)

Pupils with SEN support

Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

2024/25

This school
10.4%

Pupils with an EHC plan

An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.

2024/25

This school
2.7%

Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years

2024/25

This school
13.9%

First language not English

This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.

2024/25

This school
10.8%

Attendance

Overall absence

The share of possible mornings and afternoons missed, for any reason (authorised or not).

2024/25

This school
4.9%

Persistent absence

Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions.

2024/25

This school
10.7%

How absence is measured

Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.

About the school

Type
Academy converter (Academies)
Phase
Primary
Trust
FIERTÉ MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
Sponsor
The Violet Way Academy
Boys, girls or mixed
Mixed
Nursery
No Nursery Classes
Opened
1 June 2011
Local authority
Staffordshire
Parliamentary constituency
Burton and Uttoxeter
URN
136762 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).

Admissions

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