Brentnall Academy, Salford

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Brentnall Academy on 7 areas: 3 strong standard and 4 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders, including from the trust, are determined that Brentnall Academy is a school that welcomes all its pupils."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "The trust board and its regional and local leadership are highly ambitious for pupils at the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders prioritise pupils' personal development alongside academic success."

Achievement - Expected standard. "In this new school, pupils' achievement is steadily and markedly improving."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "School and trust leaders pursue a well-thought-out plan to ensure that pupils' attendance and behaviour go from strength to strength."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The trust ensures that the school has a well-thought-out and logically ordered curriculum, in which the key knowledge for staff to teach is identified clearly."

Early years - Expected standard. "At the heart of the early years is a well-considered curriculum, which includes a deliberate focus on sharing high-quality stories with children."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should make certain that their actions on attendance enable all pupils to benefit from the school's curriculum and teaching"; "Leaders should ensure that in each key stage staff build pupils' handwriting, grammar and punctuation skills and develop pupils' ability to write longer pieces of work"; "Leaders should make sure that through the school's new curriculum pupils further develop their understanding of the works of different authors".

The school runs after-school care.

In 2025, 82% of Year 6 pupils at Brentnall Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 79% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 73% in Salford and 77% and 75% across England.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 17 families put Brentnall Academy as their first choice and 21 named it as one of their preferences, for 17 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Brentnall Academy are Broughton Jewish Cassel Fox Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 86% reading, 88% maths); St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School (0.4 miles, Outstanding, 85% reading, 91% maths); St Boniface RC Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 77% reading, 77% maths); and Marlborough Road Academy (0.6 miles, Good, 67% reading, 62% maths).

Brentnall Academy's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Brentnall Academy is one of 98 schools run by United Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

52.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 54.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Black (28%), White British (26%) and Mixed (15%).

In 2026, 25 pupils (13.6%) received SEN support and 16 (8.7%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

Brentnall Academy has a resourced provision for autism: 12 places, 10 pupils on roll.

Brentnall Academy had 12 teachers in 2026, one for every 15 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Abraham Moss (Manchester Metrolink), about 1 mile away in a straight line.

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Northumberland Street (opposite), 110 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Brentnall Academy stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 3rd decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Brentnall Academy issued 9 suspensions, 4.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Brentnall Academy are Beis Yaakov High School (under 0.1 miles) and The King David High School (0.8 miles).