Ravensfield Primary School, Dukinfield

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

Early years - Needs attention. "Over time, the provision in the early years has not ensured that children are fully equipped to take on the demands of the Year 1 curriculum."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Over time, against a backdrop of staffing changes and absence, leaders have not stemmed the decline in the school's work."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "The personal development offer is improving, but it remains variable in terms of its impact on pupils."

Achievement - Urgent improvement. "Pupils do not achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Urgent improvement. "Low expectations of pupils' behaviour have become the norm at this school."

Curriculum and teaching - Urgent improvement. "Leaders have not ensured that teachers hold high expectations of what pupils can and should achieve."

Inclusion - Urgent improvement. "The systems to identify barriers to pupils' learning and wellbeing are not effective."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders must ensure that they rebuild fractured relationships with staff so that pupils' best interests and their enjoyment of school sit at the heart of school life. • Leaders should ensure that they implement the new behaviour policy fully and that staff follow it consistently well so that incidents of challenging behaviour are managed effectively and reduce over time. • Leaders must ensure that they raise teachers' expectations of pupils' behaviour, wellbeing and academic success so that pupils' attitudes to learning improve and incidents of low-level behaviour reduce. This is so pupils can thrive, achieve well and regain a sense of belonging to their school community. • Leaders must ensure that pupils' needs and barriers to learning are identified early and that teachers are suitably equipped to adapt their teaching in order to help these pupils flourish and succeed. • Leaders must ensure that teachers have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the curriculum and assess pupils' learning so that pupils are able to make the most of their time in school, raise their aspirations and achieve as well as they should. • Leaders should ensure that pupils' foundational knowledge in writing, communication and mathematics is secured early so that gaps in pupils' learning do not linger and hinder their next educational steps. • Leaders should ensure that there is a whole-school approach to pupils' attendance, so that everyone plays their part in promoting the attendance of all pupils, especially those who are disadvantaged and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. • Leaders should build on the emerging programme of wider opportunities to ensure that pupils are able to enhance their learning, expand their interests and foster their talents. • Leaders should ensure that the recent improvements in the early years extend across the whole provision so that more children are ready to meet the demands of Year 1. • Trustees and members of the local governing body should work with school leaders and staff to rebuild trust and confidence so that parents and carers can be assured that their children are happy and safe in school".

In its own words: "At Ravensfield Primary School we believe that children should be taught how to self-regulate, take responsibility for their own actions and face logical, reasonable, proportionate consequences where needed, in line with our behaviour policy. We believe in clearly teaching behaviour expectations through the school's behaviour curriculum so all children understand our expectations and behave well."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, rugby, cricket, tennis, gymnastics, multi-sports, running, dance, drama and choir.

Ravensfield Primary School has no published results of its own yet. Before it took its current form in 2024, under its previous registration (URN 134845), 49% of its Year 6 pupils reached the expected standard in reading and 51% in maths in the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments.

For September 2026 entry, 16 families put Ravensfield Primary School as their first choice and 34 named it as one of their preferences, for 19 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 Ravensfield Primary School are Lyndhurst Primary School (0.4 miles, 74% reading, 81% maths); St Peter's CofE Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 83% reading, 90% maths); St John's CofE Primary School, Dukinfield (0.9 miles, Good, 96% reading, 93% maths); and St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (0.9 miles, 81% reading, 55% maths).

Ravensfield Primary School is one of 7 schools run by Changing Lives in Collaboration, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 61% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

85 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Ravensfield Primary School (as of April 2026): 15% would recommend the school, 39% say their child is happy there and 13% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child is happy at the school (39%); the weakest, that pupils behave well (8%).

41.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 10.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (79%), Asian (7%) and Black (7%).

In 2026, 85 pupils (22%) received SEN support and 21 (5.4%) 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 railway station is Guide Bridge Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.

12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Pickford Lane (near), 100 metres away.

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

In 2024/25, Ravensfield Primary School issued 91 suspensions, 21.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The secondary schools closest to Ravensfield Primary School are All Saints Catholic College (0.8 miles), Rayner Stephens High School (1 mile), Hyde High School (1.1 miles) and Audenshaw School (1.2 miles).