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Cloverlea Primary School, Altrincham

Outstanding
Primary
Community school
Mixed
Ages 3–11

Cloverlea Primary School is a primary school for pupils aged 3 to 11 in Altrincham. It was rated Outstanding at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in June 2007. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in October 2024 did not change this grade. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 14th-highest of the 17 schools in Altrincham with published results, and 7,353rd of 14,452 across England. It was 96% full in 2025.

SATs results
In line with England
Ofsted
Outstanding (2007)
Demand
Every first choice offered
Attendance
In line with England
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Reception applications for September 2027 close in 75 days

Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Trafford (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.

Data last updated 1 Nov 2026

Cloverlea Primary School in detail

Cloverlea Primary School in its own words

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From the headteacher's welcome: "The pupils at Cloverlea enjoy coming to school. As soon as they step into the building they are in a safe and stimulating environment where they feel valued and part of the school family. The teaching and learning that takes place engages our pupils and encourages them to achieve high. School days are happy, fulfilling and rewarding for all."

Coming up: an open day on Thursday 10 June 2027. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

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Vision and values (school website)Headteacher's welcome (school website)Open days on the school's site (school website)

Source: The school's own website

Results

In 2025, 77% of Year 6 pupils at Cloverlea Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 77% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 84% and 82% in Trafford and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (76% in reading, 83% in maths).

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

Getting a place at Cloverlea Primary School

For September 2026 entry, 23 families put Cloverlea Primary School as their first choice and 73 named it as one of their preferences, for 23 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Admissions history and your chances at Cloverlea Primary School

Compared with nearby schools

The nearest other state primary schools to Cloverlea Primary School are Broomwood Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 78% reading, 74% maths); Willows Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 88% reading, 87% maths); St Vincent's Catholic Primary School (0.9 miles, Outstanding, 91% reading, 93% maths); and Sandilands Primary School (1 mile, Good, 78% reading, 64% maths).

Cloverlea Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Broomwood Primary SchoolWillows Primary SchoolSt Vincent's Catholic Primary SchoolSandilands Primary School

What parents say

81 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Cloverlea Primary School (as of September 2025): 90% would recommend the school, 99% say their child is happy there and 82% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (99%); the weakest, that the school has high expectations for their child (80%).

Who goes there

11.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 25 pupils (11%) received SEN support and 5 (2.2%) 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 social, emotional and mental health needs.

Getting there

The nearest railway station is Navigation Road Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Timperley Church (opposite), 210 metres away.

The area around the school

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Cloverlea Primary School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

Suspensions and exclusions

Cloverlea Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

Secondary schools nearby

The secondary schools closest to Cloverlea Primary School are Altrincham College (0.5 miles), Wellington School (0.7 miles), Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College (0.9 miles) and Dixons Brooklands Academy (1.2 miles).

Altrincham CollegeWellington SchoolBlessed Thomas Holford Catholic CollegeDixons Brooklands Academy

Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; Ofsted Parent View; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics

Location

Offered a place in 2023 (~2.5km)Unlikely (~3.2km)

Trafford published that the last place for 2023 entry went to a family 1.546 miles away (straight line). The cut-off moves every year.

Key Information

DfE GIAS
Head:Mr C McConnell
Pupils:228
LA:Trafford
Phone:01619808338
Address:Green Lane North, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7NQ
Status:open
Opened:1 January 1900

Ofsted Rating

Ofsted · 2 years ago

This judgement is from June 2007, 19 years ago, longer than Ofsted's usual 4-year cycle: the school may have changed since.

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Overall

Good

Quality of Education

Good

Behaviour & Attitudes

Good

Personal Development

Good

Leadership & Management

Good

Early Years

Inspected 8 October 2024View full report
URN:106295
UKPRN:10078963
Diocese:Not applicable
Constituency:Altrincham and Sale West
Urban/Rural:Urban: Nearer to a major town or city

Ofsted Insights

From Ofsted's October 2024 inspection report.

What This School Does Well

This is a caring school where children thrive both academically and personally. Pupils develop into confident readers and progress well through a carefully planned curriculum. The school successfully fosters positive behaviour and encourages children to make valuable contributions to their school community through roles like values ambassadors and subject ambassadors.

Key Strengths

  • Strong focus on reading with an excellent library and phonics programme that helps pupils become fluent, confident readers
  • Ambitious, enriched curriculum with many trips and visits that bring learning to life
  • Warm, caring relationships between staff and pupils with calm, orderly atmosphere throughout the school
  • Well-developed early years provision with strong emphasis on language and communication skills
  • Good support for pupils with additional needs through quick identification and tailored help

Areas for Improvement

  • In some subjects, staff lack clarity about the essential knowledge pupils should remember, making it harder to emphasise this learning
  • Some staff do not always adapt the curriculum well enough for pupils with SEND, which can hinder their access to learning

Safeguarding

Safeguarding arrangements are effective with strong systems in place to keep pupils safe.

Extracurricular Activities

Reading buddies programme, play leaders at breaktime, skateboarding, choir, variety of sports clubs

Cloverlea Primary School is a happy and harmonious school where pupils are well cared for and relationships between staff and students are warm. Since the previous inspection, the school has successfully strengthened its curriculum and all key areas are judged as Good.

At a Glance

11.8%

Free School Meals

No

Boarding

Yes

Nursery

No

Sixth Form

No

Special Measures

What Parents Think

81 responses
Would recommend90%
Child is happy99%
Child does well94%
High expectations80%
Feels safe99%
Well behaved98%
Bullying dealt with (of parents with a view)82%
Kept informed85%
Handles concerns (of parents who raised one)90%
Wider development82%

Source: Ofsted Parent View, responses as at September 2025 - % who strongly agree or agree

Primary Performance (KS2)

Academic year 2024/25

KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)

2024
2025
Reading+1ppMaths-6ppWriting+1pp

Reading has remained stable at around 77% (2024 to 2025). Maths has declined from 83% to 77% (2024 to 2025). Writing has remained stable at around 87% (2024 to 2025).

Class Sizes

28.1

Avg class size

27.0

Infant (KS1)

30.5

KS2

8

Total classes

2 classes with more than 30 pupils

2025/26 academic year

How Does This School Compare?

Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools

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Before and after school care

Clubs on Ofsted's childcare register at or near Cloverlea Primary School.

  • Beanstalks@CloverleaAt the school · Not yet graded

Nurseries

Beanstalks@Cloverlea is at Cloverlea Primary School.

The nearest nurseries and pre-schools to Cloverlea Primary School, with their latest published grades:

Term dates

Cloverlea Primary School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Trafford. Training (INSET) days, when pupils are not in school, vary by school: check the school's own calendar.

2026 to 2027

  • Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026)
  • Spring term: Monday 4 January to Thursday 25 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027)
  • Summer term: Monday 12 April to Wednesday 21 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027)

2027 to 2028

  • Autumn term: Monday 6 September to Friday 17 December 2027 (half term Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October 2027)
  • Spring term: Tuesday 4 January to Friday 31 March 2028 (half term Monday 14 February to Friday 18 February 2028)
  • Summer term: Tuesday 18 April to Wednesday 26 July 2028 (half term Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2028)

Source: Trafford term dates

Getting There

Bus Stops

Timperley Church (opp)
211m · 3 min walk
Mainwood Road (opp)
222m · 4 min walk
Green Lane (nr)
260m · 4 min walk
Wood Lane (adj)
341m · 6 min walk
Marshfield Road (nr)
386m · 6 min walk

Free school transport

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Safety and surroundings

Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)

Collisions
14
Fatal
1
Serious
7
Children hurt
1

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 14 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 7 serious and 6 slight.

1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt.

1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.

The typical figure for schools in Trafford is 11 (the median across 103 schools, same distance and years).

Serious and slight are DfT estimates (severity adjustment). Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Your chances of a place at Cloverlea Primary School

Will you get a place at Cloverlea Primary School?

Trafford published that the last place at Cloverlea Primary School offered on distance for 2023 entry went to a family 1.55 miles away. For 2026 entry it had 23 first choices for 23 places. The report sets your home postcode against these figures.

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Capacity & Demand

School Occupancy

96%

Near capacity

201 pupils

210 places

9 spare places in 2025

2025, DfE school capacity data

Across Trafford council

Low demand council-wide0.75 applications per place

Places available

2,990

Applications

2,238

Got 1st preference

94.5%

Got preferred school

99.6%

All primary applications across Trafford council (2026/27), not just this school.

This school: Every first choice offered

Future places in the local planning area

DfE estimates the ALT Primary planning area (Trafford) will have 1,253 spare primary places in 2027/28. In the year groups that are short, it estimates 30 additional places needed.

Source: Department for Education, School capacity: Academic year 2024/25 (published 19 March 2026), estimates of future school place demand by planning area. Council pupil forecasts against reported places, counting places councils and DfE plan to add or remove; rounded to whole places. Explore Education Statistics

Inspection History(5)

8 October 2024
Quality of EducationGood
Behaviour & AttitudesGood
Personal DevelopmentGood
Leadership & ManagementGood
Early YearsGood
21 June 2022
30 June 2010

SEND & SEN Provision

SEN Overview

25

SEN Support

5

EHC Plans

13.2%

of Total Pupils

2026 academic year

Provision & Specialist Facilities

No specialist provision recorded

Pupils by Need Type

Social, Emotional & Mental Health8
Speech, Language & Communication7
Moderate Learning Difficulty5
Specific Learning Difficulty2
Visual Impairment2
Physical Disability1
Autistic Spectrum Disorder1
Other1
EHC Plan
SEN Support

Pupil Demographics

Ethnicity

White British
60.5%
Asian
14.9%
Black
2.6%
Mixed
13.2%
Chinese
1.8%
Other
2.2%

2026 academic year

Key Indicators

Free School Meals11.8%
English as Additional Language17.1%

228

Total Pupils

128

Boys

100

Girls

2026 academic year

Workforce

9

Teachers

25.3:1

Pupil-teacher ratio

£56,190

Mean salary

2026 data

School Funding

£5,222

Per pupil

£1137k

Total funding

£24k

Pupil premium

Deprivation£34,729
EAL funding£8,884
Lump sum£145,100

2025-26 financial year allocations

Pupil Absence
2024/25

4.4%

Overall absence

13.3%

Persistent absence

180

Enrolments

Authorised2.8%
Unauthorised1.6%
Persistent (10%+)13.3%
Severe (50%+)0.6%

Absence trend

2.2%
18/19
3.5%
20/21
4.1%
21/22
4.6%
22/23
4.2%
23/24
4.4%
24/25
Overall absence rate

Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.

Questions parents ask about Cloverlea Primary School

What are SATs results like at Cloverlea Primary School?

Of the pupils at Cloverlea Primary School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 77% reached the expected standard in reading and 77% did so in maths.

What is Cloverlea Primary School's Ofsted rating?

Cloverlea Primary School's most recent Ofsted inspection, in October 2024, was ungraded. At its last graded inspection, in June 2007, it was rated Outstanding.

How close to Cloverlea Primary School do you need to live?

Trafford published how far from Cloverlea Primary School the last place offered went, in miles: 0.625 for 2022 entry, then 1.546 for 2023 entry. The cut-off widened by 0.921 miles between 2022 and 2023 entry.

Is it hard to get a place at Cloverlea Primary School?

Cloverlea Primary School was close to full in 2025, at 96% of its 210 places.

How big are the classes at Cloverlea Primary School?

Classes at Cloverlea Primary School average 28.1 pupils (2025/26). 2 classes have more than 30 pupils.

How many pupils go to Cloverlea Primary School?

Cloverlea Primary School has around 228 pupils on roll. 12% are eligible for free school meals.

What is attendance like at Cloverlea Primary School?

4.4% of sessions were missed at Cloverlea Primary School in 2024/25. 13.3% of pupils were persistently absent.

Does Cloverlea Primary School have a breakfast club or after-school club?

Ofsted's childcare register lists an out-of-school club at the school: Beanstalks@Cloverlea (registered, not yet graded).

What are Cloverlea Primary School's term dates?

Cloverlea Primary School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Trafford. In 2026 to 2027: Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026); Spring term: Monday 4 January to Thursday 25 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027); Summer term: Monday 12 April to Wednesday 21 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027). In 2027 to 2028: Autumn term: Monday 6 September to Friday 17 December 2027 (half term Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October 2027); Spring term: Tuesday 4 January to Friday 31 March 2028 (half term Monday 14 February to Friday 18 February 2028); Summer term: Tuesday 18 April to Wednesday 26 July 2028 (half term Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2028).

How many road collisions happen near Cloverlea Primary School?

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 14 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 7 serious and 6 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt. 1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Trafford is 11 (the median across 103 schools, same distance and years).

Where is Cloverlea Primary School?

Cloverlea Primary School is at Green Lane North, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA15 7NQ.

Sources: Trafford admissions booklets; Trafford term dates; Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)

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