High Lawn Primary School, Bolton
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
Estimated admission likelihood based on school density and oversubscription data
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoOverall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
High Lawn is a well-led school where children thrive academically and behaviourally across all subjects. Teaching is consistently good with excellent support from teaching assistants, and pupils develop strong values through a rich curriculum of trips, visits, and enrichment activities. Parents are highly confident in the school, with almost everyone recommending it to others.
Key Strengths
- Outstanding pupil behaviour - pupils are keen, attentive, and eager to learn, which helps them make good progress
- Strong teaching across all subjects including reading, writing, mathematics, French, music, science and computing
- Effective use of high-quality teaching assistants that benefits both less-able and most-able pupils
- Good early years provision with significantly improved teaching for the youngest children
- Pupils' excellent spiritual, moral, social and cultural development shown through harmonious play and work together
Areas for Improvement
- Most able pupils supported by pupil premium funding do not attain the highest standards
- More education needed on protecting pupils from extremist behaviours in society
- Leadership checks on pupils' work lack precision in identifying what needs to improve to raise teaching quality
- Governors need to better monitor the impact of external funding on pupil outcomes and prevent budget overspending
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is effective - pupils feel safe and the school prepares them well to avoid danger when using the internet, though more could be done to educate pupils about extremist behaviours.
Extracurricular Activities
Choir, Spanish club, art and sculpture, chess, film club, mathletics, football, Read to Dogs project, parliamentary workshop, trips to churches and synagogues, theatre visits, music and dance performances
High Lawn Primary School is a good school that has maintained its previous rating. Almost every parent would recommend it, and pupils and staff are proud of the school which is very well led by the acting headteacher.
At a Glance
22.1%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
What Parents Think
50 responsesSource: Ofsted Parent View - % who strongly agree or agree
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 77% to 73%. Maths has improved from 72% to 77%. Writing has improved from 80% to 84%.
Class Sizes
28.1
Avg class size
28.5
Infant (KS1)
30.4
KS2
15
Total classes
5 classes with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
98%
Near capacity
492 pupils
504 capacity
12 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Bolton
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Bolton
Admissions Demand - Bolton
Places available
4,105
Applications
3,501
Got 1st preference
89.7%
Got preferred school
97.6%
Primary admissions across Bolton (2025/26)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.32507%
Overall absence
14.16894%
Persistent absence
367
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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