Ball Green Primary School
Whitfield Road, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 8AJ
This school is closed (it closed in March 2026).
It was replaced by Ball Green Primary Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr Jonathan Hankey
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- SEN provision
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent North
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 360
- Pupils on roll
- 319
- URN
- 124020
- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Website
- School website
About this school
Ball Green Primary School was a community primary school in Stoke-on-Trent. It taught children aged 3 to 11 and had 319 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Ball Green Primary School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 55 | 50 | 57 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 27% | 30% | 42% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 4% | 9% |
| Expected standard in reading | 53% | 54% | 56% |
| Expected standard in maths | 44% | 52% | 51% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 56% | 40% | 58% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 100.0 | 103.0 | 102.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 98.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Reading progress | -2.30 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -4.40 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -3.40 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Ball Green Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Stoke-on-Trent average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 27% | 54.8% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 30% | 56.5% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 42% | 57.6% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.4% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 7.7% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.8% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 346 |
| 2023/24 | 360 |
| 2024/25 | 345 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Ball Green Primary School compares
Its KS2 result was higher than 13% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 27% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 42% | 6.8% | 66.6% | 319 | — |
| Ball Green Primary Academy | — | — | — | — | 0.0 miles |
| Burnwood Primary Academy | — | — | — | 573 | 0.6 miles |
| St Marys Catholic Academy | 77% | 2.9% | 21.5% | 241 | 0.7 miles |
| Whitfield Valley Primary Academy | 81% | 5.3% | 62.3% | 474 | 0.8 miles |
| Norton-Le-Moors Primary Academy | 83% | 4.4% | 42.8% | 233 | 1.1 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 66.56%
- English as an additional language
- 13.6%
- Overall absence
- 6.84%
- Persistent absence
- 22.03%
Location
Nearby schools
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Ball Green Primary Academy0.0 miles
Primary · Stoke-on-Trent
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Burnwood Primary Academy0.6 miles
Primary · Stoke-on-Trent
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St Marys Catholic Academy0.7 miles
Primary · Stoke-on-Trent
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Whitfield Valley Primary Academy0.8 miles
Primary · Stoke-on-Trent
-
Norton-Le-Moors Primary Academy1.1 miles
Primary · Stoke-on-Trent
Other schools in Stoke-on-Trent
- Abbey Hulton Primary School Primary
- Alexandra Infants' School Primary
- Alexandra Junior School Primary
- All Saints' CofE First School Primary
- Alsager Highfields Community Primary School Primary
- Alsagers Bank Primary Academy Primary
- Ash Green Primary Academy Primary
- Ball Green Primary Academy Primary
- Barlaston CofE (VC) First School Primary
- Belgrave St Bartholomew's Academy Primary
- Bishop Rawle CofE Primary School Primary
- Burnwood Primary Academy Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Ball Green Primary School teach?
- Ball Green Primary School taught children aged 3 to 11. It was a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Has Ball Green Primary School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Ball Green Primary School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Ball Green Primary School?
- Ball Green Primary School had 319 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- How have Ball Green Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 27% in 2022/23 and 42% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Ball Green Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Ball Green Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 June 2026.