Beech Street Community Primary School

Beech Street Community Primary School is a happy, nurturing and inclusive school where pupils feel safe and behave well. Inspectors found inclusion to be a strong standard, with pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those facing disadvantage identified quickly and supported well. Safeguarding standards are met, and all other evaluated areas—achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, early years, leadership and governance, and personal development—are at the expected standard. The school serves a context with well-above-average levels of disadvantage and SEND, and leaders use pupil premium funding and professional partnerships effectively. Strengths include a vocabulary-rich curriculum, a strong focus on reading and phonics, a well-resourced early years provision, and an extensive enrichment and personal development programme. Pupils are tolerant, proud of their school and prepared for life in modern Britain. Governance is knowledgeable, staff feel supported, and parents are overwhelmingly positive. Attendance is broadly in line with national averages and improving, and behaviour is calm and orderly. The main area for improvement is teaching consistency. Occasionally, teachers do not give pupils enough opportunities to deepen their thinking, and they do not check understanding closely enough, so some pupils do not learn as well as they could. Leaders should ensure that checks on understanding are used consistently to secure and deepen knowledge.

Strengths

• Inclusion is a strong standard, with SEND and disadvantaged pupils well supported.
• Personalised pastoral support and calm spaces help pupils with additional emotional needs.
• Leaders use pupil premium funding well to improve attendance and basic skills.
• Phonics outcomes have risen steadily, giving pupils firm foundations in reading.
• Pupils’ attainment at the end of key stage 2 is broadly in line with national averages.
• Behaviour is calm and orderly, and bullying is rare and dealt with swiftly.
• The curriculum is ambitious and vocabulary-rich, with a strong priority on reading.
• Early years provision is safe, happy and well resourced, with positive parental feedback.
• Governors are knowledgeable, well trained and provide appropriate challenge and support.
• An extensive enrichment programme builds confidence, resilience and cultural awareness.
• Pupils are tolerant, respectful and prepared for life in modern Britain.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture of safeguarding.

Areas for Improvement

• Teachers do not consistently check pupils’ understanding closely enough.
• Some teachers do not provide enough opportunities for pupils to deepen their thinking.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Beech Street Community Primary School attended 93.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.7% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.0% of pupils at Beech Street Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Beech Street Community Primary School had 19.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 24.1% of pupils at Beech Street Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Beech Street Community Primary School received £8,778 and spent £8,546 for each of its 241 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £258,000 (£1,071 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Beech Street Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beech Street Community Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Beech Street Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beech Street Community Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Beech Street Community Primary School have?

Beech Street Community Primary School has 241 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beech Street Community Primary School cover?

Beech Street Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Beech Street Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Beech Street Community Primary School?

Beech Street Community Primary School is at Beech Street, Winton, Eccles, Manchester, M30 8GB.