St John Bosco RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Primary · Manchester · M9 7AT
Requires improvement
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: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes
Inspected 5 March 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
207 pupils · 86% of 240 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 34.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 152014
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.88 first-choice applications per place17 places offered · 15 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Sessions missed (overall absence)
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Nearby schools
- Crosslee Community Primary School
- Charlestown Community Primary School
- Co-op Academy North Manchester
- St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Alkrington
- St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School, Middleton, Rochdale
- Moston Fields Primary School
- Camberwell Park Specialist Support School
- Alkrington Primary School