Supreme Start Ltd, Oldham
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 8 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
This school is undergoing significant challenges. While interim leaders have recently started to identify issues and introduce improvements, the school currently does not provide an effective or safe learning environment. Parents should be aware that major changes are needed across safeguarding, teaching quality, and pupil support before this school can deliver a good standard of education.
Key Strengths
- Interim leaders have begun to identify pressing issues and are taking steps to address them
- Staff report positively about leaders' support for workload and wellbeing
- School has recently started to provide some enrichment experiences for pupils
Areas for Improvement
- Safeguarding culture is not open and positive, putting pupils at significant risk of harm
- Pupils make poor progress and do not achieve well due to poorly conceived curriculum
- Staff lack expertise to manage pupils' emotions and behavior, leading to overuse of physical restraints
- Attendance culture is weak with poor systems and low expectations
- Leadership and governance have overseen systemic failures with no accountability structures in place
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are not met - leaders have failed to ensure an open and positive safeguarding culture, with inadequate lone-working practices, weak record-keeping of concerns, and failure to make timely referrals to other agencies.
Extracurricular Activities
Visit from firefighters with fire engine, trips to multi-sensory activity centre, visits to working farm
Supreme Start Ltd is a special school for pupils with complex needs supported by Education, Health and Care plans. The school has been rated as requiring urgent improvement across all areas due to systemic failures in safeguarding, teaching, curriculum design, and leadership.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
0.0
Avg class size
0
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
25%
Available places
5 pupils
20 capacity
15 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Oldham
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Admissions Demand - Oldham
Places available
4,034
Applications
3,251
Got 1st preference
76.0%
Got preferred school
93.9%
Secondary admissions across Oldham (2025/26)
Inspection History(2)
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Pupil Demographics
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