Greave Primary School, Stockport

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

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils' attainment by the end of Year 6 in reading, writing and mathematics is broadly in line with national averages."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders understand the importance of high attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a curriculum that is ambitious and logically ordered so that learning builds over time."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure children make a successful start to their education."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders place inclusion at the heart of the school's work, ensuring that all pupils receive equal entitlement to thrive academically and emotionally."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders know the school and its community well."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders provide a clear and well-thought-out personal development programme."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that rigorous checks on pupils' understanding are consistently carried out, enabling misconceptions to be addressed promptly and helping pupils to apply and retain key knowledge more accurately"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils learn the curriculum in sufficient depth so that this is reflected in their high attainment"; "Leaders should further embed the personal development programme so that pupils consistently demonstrate understanding of a wide range of different faiths, backgrounds and beliefs".

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils at Greave Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 79% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 79% in Stockport and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 76% in reading and 62% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 49 families put Greave Primary School as their first choice and 154 named it as one of their preferences, for 44 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 6 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Greave Primary School are Woodley Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 73% reading, 69% maths); Romiley Primary School (0.6 miles); Bredbury St. Marks CofE Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 67% reading, 67% maths); and St Christopher's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (1 mile).

Greave Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 2 of them.

11.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 4.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Woodley Rail Station, about 880 metres away (roughly a 11-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Oxford Drive (near), 160 metres away.

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

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

The secondary schools closest to Greave Primary School are Harrytown Catholic High School (1.1 miles), Werneth School (1.2 miles) and Alder Community High School (1.6 miles).