Primary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 105649 · LAESTAB 353/2054 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against North West and Oldham
Track: North West's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = North West median; O = Oldham median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
North West state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the North West median, red = in North West's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with maintained schools' accounts (CFR), same financial year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 2: % of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; ties broken by % at the higher standard. Ranked among 15,057 primaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against North West: North West state primaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against North West (10 = top 10%).
Pupils counted: 29 pupils (2024/25), every measure.
KS2 progress (reading), KS2 progress (writing), KS2 progress (maths): Not published for 2023/24 or 2024/25.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
You: the straight line from the centre of Failsworth South (the area you came from) to the school, not from your door; inside or outside compares it with the latest distance offered.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementReport cardUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Apr 2026 Report card, lowest Needs attention · Nov 2021 Remains Good · Jul 2016 Good · Apr 2014 Requires improvement · Oct 2012 Requires improvement · Oct 2010 Satisfactory · Apr 2008 Good. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Report-card areas graded Exceptional or Strong standard, and Needs attention or Urgent improvement, out of the areas graded; Expected standard counts as neither. Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (240 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 5.98, leadership 1.98, teaching assistants 8.2, support staff incl. TAs 9.2, whole workforce 15.18 (18 people), 7 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Maintained school accounts (CFR) · April 2025 to March 2026.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
All sources and licences (6)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Consistent Financial Reporting
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 13,162 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 88%
Against North West
Show KS2 results by year
No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 18 | 18 |
| 2nd | 3 | 0 |
| 3rd | 5 | 0 |
Last distance offered: London only
0.8 km from Failsworth South · approx.: from the area's centre, not your door
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2008–2026
- InclusionStrong
- AchievementExpected
- Curriculum and teachingExpected
- Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
- Leadership and governanceExpected
- Early yearsExpected
- Personal development and wellbeingStrong
- SafeguardingMet
- 2008Good
- 2010Satisfactory
- 2012Requires improvement
- 2014Requires improvement
- 2016Good
- 2021Remains Good
- 2026Lowest Needs attention
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 49.3%Boys 50.7%
85% full · 240 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 4
- Leadership 2
- Teaching assistants 8.2
- Other support 1
Teachers 6 FTE · Whole workforce 15.2 · 18 people
Financials · 2025/26
- +£228,168revenue reserve
- −£12,852in-year balance
Grants £7,974 · self-generated £89 · premises £351 per pupil