St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Bamford
Primary · Heywood · OL10 4BB
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 8 May 2024
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228 pupils · 100% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 6.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 7.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.6% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 105813
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.13 first-choice applications per place31 places offered · 35 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
29 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
91% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 8 May 2024: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.