David Livingstone Academy

What Ofsted found

Full inspection, July 2025.

• Overall effectiveness: David Livingstone Academy has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection.
• Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

• Inspectors found that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities achieve well in relation to their starting points.
• Inspectors found that bullying is very rare and that staff teach pupils the language to deal with conflict respectfully.

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The school

• The academy places learners at the heart of everything it does.

Source: David Livingstone Academy website. Checked 12 November 2026.

How it teaches

• The curriculum aims for pupils to become fluent readers who study a canon of high-quality texts.
• French is listed among the subjects the school teaches, though the starting year is not stated.
• Subjects listed include Music, Physical Education, Computing, Design Technology and History and Geography.
• The curriculum is designed so pupils become fluent readers studying a canon of high-quality texts.

Source: David Livingstone Academy website; David Livingstone Academy website. Checked 8 November 2026.

Admissions

• The academy takes children from Reception (Year R) to Year 6, aged four to eleven.

Source: David Livingstone Academy website. Checked 8 November 2026.

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