Fairfield Road Primary School

Fairfield Road Primary School is a community primary school that pupils are proud to attend. Inspectors found behaviour and personal development to be outstanding, while the quality of education, leadership and management, and early years provision are good. Pupils feel safe and happy, behave exceptionally well, achieve highly and leave well prepared for their next stage. Reading is a high priority, there is an ambitious curriculum in most subjects, and pupils with SEND are well supported and included. The school also offers a strong wider personal development programme, including clubs, music, visits and pupil leadership roles. The main areas for improvement are limited to a small number of subjects. In these subjects, the curriculum does not cover all essential content, so some pupils miss important subject knowledge. Sometimes lesson activities also do not help pupils remember and recall key information over time. Safeguarding arrangements are effective, and governors provide appropriate support and challenge while considering staff workload and well-being. This was a graded inspection, so no overall effectiveness grade was given. The school was previously graded good.

Strengths

• Pupils behave exceptionally well and are focused and eager to learn.
• Personal development is outstanding, with a wide range of clubs, music and enrichment opportunities.
• Reading has the highest priority, and most pupils become fluent readers by the end of Year 2.
• Pupils with SEND are well supported, achieve well and take part fully in school life.
• The curriculum is ambitious and carefully planned in most subjects.
• Pupils take on leadership roles and contribute actively to their community.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Governors support and challenge leaders and consider staff workload and well-being.

Areas for Improvement

• In a small number of subjects, the curriculum does not cover all essential content, so some pupils miss important subject knowledge.
• In a small number of subjects, lesson activities do not help some pupils recall and remember key information over time.

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 Fairfield Road Primary School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.9% 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, 0.5% of pupils at Fairfield Road 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 Fairfield Road Primary School had 21.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.4% 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, 16.8% of pupils at Fairfield Road Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.9% 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 Fairfield Road Primary School received £6,960 and spent £7,044 for each of its 428 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £348,000 (£815 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 Fairfield Road Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Fairfield Road Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2025.

When was Fairfield Road Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Fairfield Road Primary School was last inspected in July 2025.

How many pupils does Fairfield Road Primary School have?

Fairfield Road Primary School has 434 pupils on roll.

What age range does Fairfield Road Primary School cover?

Fairfield Road Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Fairfield Road Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Fairfield Road Primary School?

Fairfield Road Primary School is at Grove Street, Droylsden, Manchester, M43 6AF.