Walmsley CofE Primary School
Primary · Bolton · BL7 9SA
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: Requires improvementPersonal development: Requires improvementLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes
Inspected 13 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
303 pupils · 100% of 280 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 3% of pupils
- Website
- www.walmsley.bolton.sch.uk
- URN
- 152265
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.95 first-choice applications per place20 places offered · 19 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.