St Boniface RC Primary School

St Boniface RC Primary School is a welcoming Catholic primary where pupils are happy, behave well and benefit from a caring community. Behaviour and personal development are strong, attendance has improved through effective strategies, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The school has a calm atmosphere, good pastoral support and a wide range of wider-development opportunities.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy and feel part of a welcoming, caring community
• Pupils typically behave well in class and around school
• Clear rules and routines create a calm and orderly atmosphere
• Effective pastoral support helps pupils who struggle to regulate behaviour
• Attendance has improved through effective strategies and rewards
• Wider development provision prepares pupils well for later life
• Pupils take on leadership roles and broaden experiences through trips and visits
• The curriculum structure is ambitious and being reviewed
• Communication and language are strongly emphasised in the early years
• Governors support staffing stability and are increasingly challenging the school
• Staff are proud to work at the school and value workload and wellbeing consideration
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum thinking is not finalised in some subjects, including early years
• Staff do not consistently use assessment well to identify gaps and misconceptions
• Phonics implementation varies and some staff lack training to support weaker readers
• SEND identification and support systems have lacked rigour and timeliness
• Some pupils do not achieve as well as they could because barriers are not fully addressed
• Quality of education, leadership and management, and early years require improvement

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 St Boniface RC Primary School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 18.4% 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, 3.6% of pupils at St Boniface RC 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 St Boniface RC Primary School had 18.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.0% 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, 32.0% of pupils at St Boniface RC Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.2% 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 St Boniface RC Primary School received £7,993 and spent £7,994 for each of its 219 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £8,000 (£35 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 St Boniface RC Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Boniface RC Primary School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was St Boniface RC Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Boniface RC Primary School was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does St Boniface RC Primary School have?

St Boniface RC Primary School has 219 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Boniface RC Primary School cover?

St Boniface RC Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are St Boniface RC Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Boniface RC Primary School?

St Boniface RC Primary School is at Yew Street, St Boniface Rc Primary School, Salford, Greater Manchester, M7 2HL.