Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Manchester
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Early years provision | Requires improvement |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry55 applications · 17 places offered · 15 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.2; Manchester median median 2.4
- 2025 3.3; Manchester median median 2.4; as the previous school
- 2024 3.5; Manchester median median 2.4; as the previous school
- 2023 2.9; Manchester median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2022 2.6; Manchester median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2021 2.2; Manchester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2020 2.1; Manchester median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 3.1; Manchester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2018 2.7; Manchester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 3.0; Manchester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 2.6; Manchester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2015 3.2; Manchester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2014 3.0; Manchester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Manchester median
Dashed bars: as St John Bosco RC Primary School (URN 105530), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 17 | 55 | 3.2 | 15 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2025 * | 15 | 49 | 3.3 | 14 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 * | 15 | 53 | 3.5 | 15 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 * | 25 | 72 | 2.9 | 25 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 * | 26 | 67 | 2.6 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2021 * | 30 | 67 | 2.2 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 63 | 2.1 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 93 | 3.1 | 40 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2018 * | 30 | 80 | 2.7 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 91 | 3.0 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2016 * | 29 | 75 | 2.6 | 32 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2015 * | 29 | 94 | 3.2 | 37 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 89 | 3.0 | 32 | 1.07 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St John Bosco RC Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20243.2applications per place
- 0.2 km · ManchesterSpecial measures 20261.7applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 0.5 km · ManchesterRemains Good20231.9applications per place 36%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · RochdaleGraded · no overall grade20243.3applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · RochdaleGraded · no overall grade20242.6applications per place 51%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · ManchesterGraded · no overall grade20242.3applications per place 40%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · RochdaleRemains Good20233.5applications per place 73%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · ManchesterGood20241.9applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · ManchesterGraded · no overall grade20242.0applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 152014 · 352/3446
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 240 pupils · 207 on roll
- Free school meals
- 34.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 December 2025
- Replaced
- St John Bosco RC Primary School (URN 105530)
- Address
- Hall Moss Road, Blackley, Manchester, M9 7AT
- Local authority
- Manchester
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources