Radcliffe Primary School
Primary · Manchester · M26 3RD
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 2 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
228 pupils · 56% of 410 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 48.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 24.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 18.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.3% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 139999
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.73 first-choice applications per place26 places offered · 19 first-choice applications · usually has places
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)
30 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)
82% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 11% 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, academy 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
- 2 November 2022: Good
- 20 May 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 3
- 3 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 17 January 2020: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 12 February 2019: Requires improvement
- 15 November 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 10 November 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.