Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre, Salford

Ofsted's report card from its 30 June 2026 inspection grades Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre on 7 areas: 4 expected standard and 3 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed an ambitious and considered curriculum for children in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders rightly pride themselves on how well they understand pupils' needs."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "The school has been through a difficult and disrupted period of time."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a well-thought-out and detailed programme of personal development and wellbeing."

Achievement - Needs attention. "While pupils have typically achieved well in writing and mathematics in the tests at the end of Year 6, their achievement in reading has been below the national average for too long."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Published data shows that pupils' attendance at the school has been below the national average for too many years."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "In some subjects, teachers do not identify what pupils know and can do well enough."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teachers have the skills and knowledge to identify precisely what pupils know and can do. This allows teachers to address gaps in understanding and enable pupils to successfully learn the designed curriculum"; "Leaders should continue to engage strategies to improve pupils' achievement, in particular in reading and phonics, to ensure pupils achieve well in national tests"; "Leaders should continue to embed their systems to raise pupils' attendance to school, including those pupils who are persistently absent, so that pupils can benefit from all that school has to offer".

In 2025, 74% of Year 6 pupils at Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre reached the expected standard in reading and 84% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 73% in Salford and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 58% in reading and 81% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 75 families put Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre as their first choice and 116 named it as one of their preferences, for 87 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre are St Joseph's RC Primary School (0.1 miles, Good, 63% reading, 43% maths); St Paul's CofE Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 71% reading, 74% maths); St Philip's CofE Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 61% reading, 64% maths); and Lark Hill Community Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 78% reading, 67% maths).

Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre's 2025 results were higher than all 4 of them.

44.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 48.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (33%), Mixed (17%) and Asian (15%).

In 2026, 122 pupils (23.9%) received SEN support and 23 (4.5%) 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.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Anchorage (Manchester Metrolink), about 670 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Brassington Avenue (opposite), 30 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre issued 3 suspensions, 0.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre are Oasis Academy MediaCityUK (0.3 miles), Eton Academy (0.6 miles) and AldridgeUTC@MediaCityUK (0.8 miles).