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Schools in Staffordshire

450 schools in the Staffordshire local authority.

Schools

450

Open schools

Pupils

130,671

2025–26 census

Good or better

92%

342 of 371 graded

Academic Performance

5.0

out of 10 · 411 schools

Ofsted ratings

Outstanding
26 7%
Good
316 85%
Requires improvement
28 8%
Inadequate
1 <1%
36 inspected since 2024, no overall grade43 superseded by a report card43 not judged1 in a category of concern1 safeguarding not effective
5.0
Academic Performance

Averaged over 411 of 450 schools that can be scored

Pupils

130,671

pupils on roll

Boys 51%49% Girls

Roll from 447 of 450 schools (130,671 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.

Ethnicity

White
86%
Asian
5%
Black
2%
Mixed
5%
Chinese
<1%
Any other group
<1%
Unclassified
<1%

Ethnicity from 410 of 450 schools (126,110 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.

Pupil characteristics

Free school meals
21.3%

26,816 of 126,110 pupils · 410 of 450 schools

First language not English
9.0%

11,301 of 126,110 pupils · 410 of 450 schools

Young carers
<1%

629 of 126,061 pupils · 408 of 450 schools

Schools by phase

Primary
309
Secondary
71
All-through
8
Special
29
Nursery
2
PRU
6
Not recorded
25

Top primary schools in Staffordshire

The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Top secondary schools in Staffordshire

The 20 highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Browse all 450 schools in Staffordshire — filter by phase or Ofsted rating.

About schools in Staffordshire

How many schools are there in Staffordshire?
Staffordshire has 450 open schools — 309 primary, 71 secondary, 29 special, 2 nursery, teaching 130,671 pupils in total.
How many schools in Staffordshire are rated Good or Outstanding?
342 of the 371 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 92% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 26 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 450: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
What is the average Academic Performance in Staffordshire?
5.0 out of 10, averaged across the 411 schools here that can be scored, where 5 is the national average. Academic Performance combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment and is ranked against comparable schools, so it is neither figure on its own.
Why do some Staffordshire schools have no Ofsted rating?
79 schools in Staffordshire currently hold no overall grade. Ofsted stopped awarding single-word judgements in September 2024 and moved to a report card of separately graded areas, so schools inspected since then have no overall rating whatever the inspection found. Their profiles show the report card instead.
What does Staffordshire local authority do?
A local authority is the body responsible for state education in its area — the level most admissions and school-place decisions are made at. Staffordshire covers 450 schools and sits in the West Midlands region. It does not run academies or independent schools directly, though it still coordinates admissions for most of them.
How many pupils in Staffordshire are eligible for free school meals?
21.3% — 26,816 of 126,110 pupils at the 410 schools that report it. Independent schools file a return with roll and sex only, so they are outside this figure rather than counted as zero.

Part of the West Midlands region.