The Orchards
Special / other · Stretford · M32 9TG
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Improved significantly”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 12 February 2025
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148 pupils · 99% of 149 capacity
- School type
- Free schools special
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 52.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 43.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 4.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 95.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 142782
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
15 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)
73% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 10% moved to another state school · 18% 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
- 11 February 2025: Improved significantly
- 9 July 2019: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.