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Prospect House Specialist Support Primary School

Special / other · MANCHESTER · M9 8LT

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Outstanding

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.

Quality of education: OutstandingBehaviour & attitudes: OutstandingPersonal development: OutstandingLeadership & management: OutstandingSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 3 July 2023

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At a glance

160 pupils · 100% of 160 capacity

School type
Free schools special
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
69.4% of pupils
English as additional language
28.8% of pupils
SEN support
0% of pupils
EHC plan
100% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
https://www.prospecthouse.school/
URN
147885

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

5 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

No figure is published for reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the DfE withholds figures for cohorts this small. Key stage 2 tests measure the age-11 curriculum; most pupils at special schools are assessed under other frameworks, so 97% of special schools publish 0% here.

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts. National averages are not shown here. The England figures are dominated by mainstream schools, and pupils at a special school are working towards outcomes those measures were not designed to capture, so the comparison would mislead more than it tells you.

Special educational needs

Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.

Provision type: Resourced provision.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
8.3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
29.1%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
9.6
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

88% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 12% moved to another state school

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

This school£24,497
Typical special / other school£29,004

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.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
1/10among the most deprived tenth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher19%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications36.3%18.1%
In managerial or professional work17.1%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways35.2%18.1%
Residents in very good health43.7%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier36.9%62.3%
Social housing44.3%17.1%
Privately rented18.6%20.5%
Detached houses3.5%22.9%
Flats27.4%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms3.5%21.1%
Households with no car or van43.2%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01005103 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,424 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£195,000254 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£150,000–£243,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (20)£282,500
Semi-detached (105)£232,500
Terraced (79)£180,000
Flat (50)£99,500

Homes around this school are cheaper than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
3an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
5an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
13an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
2an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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