Primary school
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This school
URN 145751 · LAESTAB 350/3335 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against North West and Bolton
Track: North West's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = North West median; B = Bolton 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 academies' accounts (AAR), same academic 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%).
Arrows: change in North West percentile points since 2018/19.
Pupils counted: 32 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.
Inspections
GoodUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Oct 2022 Remains Good · Jan 2017 Ungraded visit · Oct 2011 Good · Jul 2007 Good. Each dot opens its Ofsted report.
Inspection judgements graded Outstanding or Good, and Requires improvement or Inadequate, out of the judgements graded (the overall grade and aggregated judgements are not counted). 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 (218 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 8.46, leadership 2, teaching assistants 4.73, support staff incl. TAs 8.22, whole workforce 16.68 (26 people), 11 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
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
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, Academies Accounts Return
- 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 9,422 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 63%
Against North WestArrows: North West rank change since 2018/19
Show KS2 results by year
No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 32 | 29 |
| 2nd | 10 | 0 |
| 3rd | 18 | 1 |
Last distance offered: London only
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
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Inspections · 2007–2022
- 2007Goodas predecessor
- 2011Goodas predecessor
- 2017Ungraded visitas predecessor
- 2022Remains Good
30 strong areas
- Pupils' attainment
- Pupils' attendance
- Quality of teaching
- Achievement of pupils
- Early years provision
- Leadership and management
- Behaviour and safety of pupils
- The extent to which pupils feel safe
- The use of assessment to support learning
- The effectiveness of safeguarding procedures
- Outcomes for individuals and groups of pupils
- The effectiveness of care, guidance and support
- The school's capacity for sustained improvement
- The quality of pupils' learning and their progress
- The extent to which pupils adopt healthy lifestyles
- The leadership and management of teaching and learning
- Outcomes for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- The quality of provision in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- The effectiveness with which the school promotes community cohesion
- The effectiveness of the school's engagement with parents and carers
- The effectiveness of partnerships in promoting learning and well-being
- The extent of pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
- The extent to which pupils contribute to the school and wider community
- The effectiveness of leadership and management of the Early Years Foundation Stage
- The effectiveness with which the school deploys resources to achieve value for money
- The effectiveness with which the school promotes equality of opportunity and tackles discrimination
- The extent to which the curriculum meets pupils' needs, including, where relevant, through partnerships
- The quality of learning for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and their progress
- The extent to which pupils develop workplace and other skills that will contribute to their future economic well-being
- The effectiveness of the governing body in challenging and supporting the school so that weaknesses are tackled decisively...
0 weak areas
30 areas graded · inspected as predecessor
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 45.1%Boys 54.9%
98.6% full · 218 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 6.5
- Leadership 2
- Teaching assistants 4.7
- Other support 3.5
Teachers 8.5 FTE · Whole workforce 16.7 · 26 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£27,000revenue reserve
- +£56,000in-year balance
Grants £5,642 · self-generated £242 · premises £298 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: FORWARD AS ONE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST (15 academies) · trust reserve £2,350,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it