St Gabriel's Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale
Primary · Rochdale · OL11 2TN
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 6 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
197 pupils · 94% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 13.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 11.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.1% of pupils
- Website
- www.stgabrielsrc.com/
- URN
- 105825
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.17 first-choice applications per place30 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)
31 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)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 13% 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
- 6 February 2024: Good
- 19 June 2018: Good
- 27 April 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 14 June 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Castleton Primary School
- St Edward's Church of England Primary School
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Thornham
- Sandbrook Community Primary School
- Holy Family Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- Matthew Moss High School
- Ashfield Valley Primary School
- Marland Hill Community Primary School