Elms Bank
Special / other · Bury · M45 8PJ
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 13 September 2023
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364 pupils · 100% of 221 capacity
- School type
- Academy special converter
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 54.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 19.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.elmsbank.co.uk
- URN
- 146891
GCSE results (2024/2025)
54 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
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)
78% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% moved to another state school · 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, 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 September 2023: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- All Saints Church of England Primary School, Stand
- Sunny Bank Primary School
- Unsworth Primary School
- Ribble Drive Community Primary School
- Bury and Whitefield Jewish Primary School
- St Michael's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
- Mersey Drive Community Primary School