Highfield Primary School

Highfield Primary School continues to be classified as a good school, demonstrating a commitment to fostering an environment where pupils feel safe, supported, and encouraged to learn. The school promotes positive relationships among staff and students, with an emphasis on kindness and consideration, and this creates a nurturing atmosphere. Leaders maintain high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), ensuring they receive the necessary support to thrive within the curriculum. Notably, the school emphasizes the teaching of reading and has a well-structured approach to personal development that prepares pupils for life in modern Britain.

Strengths

• Pupils express pride in their school and describe it as 'an amazing place'.
• Strong relationships are established between staff, pupils, and their families.
• Leaders have designed an aspirational and broad curriculum.
• Teachers possess strong subject knowledge and effectively design learning experiences.
• The school effectively supports pupils with SEND, enabling them to achieve well.
• Pupils enjoy participating in a variety of clubs and extracurricular activities.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective and well managed.
• Leaders prioritize the teaching of reading from early years.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, opportunities for consolidation of key knowledge are insufficient for some pupils.

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 Highfield Primary School attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 4.9% 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, 0.7% of pupils at Highfield 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 Highfield Primary School had 19.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.0% 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, 10.8% of pupils at Highfield Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.4% 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 Highfield Primary School received £6,398 and spent £6,489 for each of its 285 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £12,000 (£41 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 Highfield Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Highfield Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Highfield Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Highfield Primary School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Highfield Primary School have?

Highfield Primary School has 288 pupils on roll.

What age range does Highfield Primary School cover?

Highfield Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 60% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Highfield Primary School?

Highfield Primary School is at Bridgenorth Avenue, Urmston, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M41 9PA.