Discovery Academy

Academy sponsor ledSecondaryAges 11–16Mixed

Discovery Drive, Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 0GA

Principal · Ms Jayne Schofield

From Get Information About Schools (DfE), updated 23 September 2026. Report a correction

Key facts

Pupils1,435Capacity 1,500

OfstedRequires improvementInspected 16 April 2024

TrustAlpha Academies Trust

Free school meals52%

SEN provisionResourced provision

Requires improvement

Graded inspection on 16 April 2024.

Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 31 August 2026.

Year 7 applications close 31 October 2026

For September 2027. Apply through Stoke-on-Trent council, not the school. National offer day is 1 March 2027.

All 208 families who put it first were offered a place.

Places offered221

Applications307

First choice208

First-choice offers208

Applications count every family who named the school as any preference. Figures change every year, so they are a guide, not a guarantee.

Source: Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers 2026 (on-time applications, national offer day).