Stalyhill Junior School, Stalybridge
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
This school excels at creating a warm, respectful community where children feel safe and are challenged to achieve their best. Teaching is good and increasingly outstanding, helping all pupils - including the most able - make strong progress. The school enriches learning through a creative curriculum, music tuition, residential trips, sports activities and visits, ensuring children are well-prepared for life in modern Britain.
Key Strengths
- Strong leadership with ambitious headteacher and governors who hold staff accountable
- Good teaching quality with increasing proportion of outstanding lessons that challenge pupils of different abilities
- High standards of behaviour and safety - pupils feel extremely safe and the school has outstanding attention to safeguarding
- Well-presented work and above-average attainment by end of Year 6
- Imaginative and creative curriculum with enrichment through music, sports specialists and local school partnerships
Areas for Improvement
- Not all pupils are set tasks at the correct level of difficulty, which sometimes slows their progress
- Subject leaders (particularly new ones) need to be more skilful at checking the quality of teaching and learning in their curriculum areas
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is effective - the school pays outstanding attention to safety with proper checks and vetting of staff, careful access control, clear policies, and all staff have up-to-date training.
Extracurricular Activities
Musical tuition, residential trips, French lessons, sports events (tennis, chess, skipping, yoga, competitive sports), school council, ECO committee, lunchtime buddy scheme, class prefects
Stalyhill Junior School is a good school with well-led leadership and strong governance. Pupils make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics from their individual starting points, with standards by the end of Year 6 that are above average and often well-above average.
At a Glance
12.3%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has remained stable at around 82%. Maths has declined from 89% to 78%. Writing has improved from 55% to 75%.
Class Sizes
28.8
Avg class size
28.8
KS2
8
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
95%
Near capacity
227 pupils
240 capacity
13 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Stalybridge
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Stalybridge
Admissions Demand - Tameside
Places available
3,065
Applications
2,347
Got 1st preference
95.4%
Got preferred school
99.0%
Primary admissions across Tameside (2025/26)
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Pupil Absence2024/25
3.00596%
Overall absence
3.81356%
Persistent absence
236
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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