Waterloo Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Waterloo Primary School excels at creating an inclusive, welcoming environment where every child feels they belong. Staff build strong, trusting relationships with pupils and provide thoughtful, targeted support for those with additional needs or facing disadvantage. The school celebrates diversity and ensures vulnerable pupils, including those with SEND and disadvantaged children, access the same enriching opportunities as their peers.
Key Strengths
- Strong safeguarding culture with all legal requirements met and pupils feeling safe and supported
- Warm, respectful relationships between staff and pupils with good behaviour and attendance, particularly among vulnerable groups
- Effective support for pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils through targeted interventions and personalised learning
- Welcoming early years provision that builds children's communication, language and independence
- Inclusive personal development programme helping pupils understand healthy relationships, online safety and wellbeing
Areas for Improvement
- Phonics screening results and key stage 2 outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics below national average
- Teachers not consistently pitching work at the right level for higher-attaining pupils who need greater depth of challenge
- Inconsistency in phonics teaching quality across early years staff
- Gaps in important curriculum knowledge for some pupils due to high school mobility and complex needs
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture of safeguarding with all legal requirements fulfilled, resulting in pupils being made safer and feeling safe.
Extracurricular Activities
music tuition, residential experiences, school ambassadors, school council, mock trial with local magistrates, camping experience
Waterloo Primary School is a diverse and welcoming primary school serving a highly disadvantaged community with high mobility. The school has established strong safeguarding, positive behaviour, and inclusive practices, though academic outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics remain below national average.
At a Glance
45.0%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 57% to 68%. Maths has remained stable at around 63%. Writing has improved from 52% to 66%.
Class Sizes
26.5
Avg class size
25.2
Infant (KS1)
27.9
KS2
13
Total classes
4 classes with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
65%
Available places
293 pupils
450 capacity
157 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Ashton-under-Lyne
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Ashton-under-Lyne
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)
Inspection History(104)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.10898%
Overall absence
14.18919%
Persistent absence
296
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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