Gorse Hill Primary School

Gorse Hill Primary School is performing well, achieving a good rating across all inspected areas. The school provides a supportive and engaging environment where pupils enjoy their learning and value their relationships with staff. Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are well prepared for future educational stages and achieve good outcomes. The school boasts clear expectations for behavior and has effective routines that support students in making positive choices throughout their academic journey. While the school has a solid curriculum foundation and strong teaching strategies, there are minor discrepancies in a few subjects regarding the identification of key knowledge that pupils should acquire. This has led to some pupils not fully developing their understanding over time. Nevertheless, the leadership team has shown a commitment to continual improvement, actively involving parents and the community in the educational process, which has garnered high levels of satisfaction among families.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve well including those disadvantaged and with SEND.
• Effective behavior management and clear routines promote good choices.
• Strong subject leadership enhances curriculum delivery.
• Established reading program helps pupils develop fluency and confidence.
• Widespread love of reading supported by a well-stocked library.
• Pupils are engaged in extra-curricular activities and roles of responsibility.

Areas for Improvement

• In a very small number of subjects, essential knowledge for pupils has not been adequately identified.

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 Gorse Hill Primary School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.6% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Gorse Hill 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 Gorse Hill Primary School had 17.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.2% 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, 27.2% of pupils at Gorse Hill Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.3% 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 Gorse Hill Primary School received £8,405 and spent £8,446 for each of its 302 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £37,000 (£123 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 Gorse Hill Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Gorse Hill Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2023.

When was Gorse Hill Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Gorse Hill Primary School was last inspected in December 2023.

How many pupils does Gorse Hill Primary School have?

Gorse Hill Primary School has 302 pupils on roll.

What age range does Gorse Hill Primary School cover?

Gorse Hill Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Gorse Hill Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Gorse Hill Primary School?

Gorse Hill Primary School is at Burleigh Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 0PF.