Royton Hall Primary School

Royton Hall Primary School is a welcoming, caring school where pupils feel proud and are polite and respectful. Inspectors found high expectations across the school, an ambitious and carefully sequenced curriculum from early years, effective phonics teaching, calm and orderly behaviour, and strong personal development. Provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities has been transformed since the previous inspection, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The school remains good across all key judgements. The main areas for improvement are the reading strategy and assessment. Reading is a high priority in early years and phonics is delivered well, but the range of literature is not extended enough across the school, limiting older pupils’ enjoyment and appreciation of different authors, poets and playwrights. In addition, checks on pupils’ learning are sometimes not used effectively to identify and address gaps in knowledge, which means some pupils cannot build successfully on prior learning. This was a graded inspection in June 2025, and as is usual for graded inspections from September 2024, no overall effectiveness grade was given. The school is a community primary for pupils aged 3 to 11 and was previously judged good.

Strengths

• Welcoming and caring environment where pupils feel proud and valued
• Pupils are polite, respectful and well mannered
• Pupils typically concentrate well and produce high-quality work
• Ambitious and carefully sequenced curriculum from the early years
• Reading is a high priority in early years and phonics is taught effectively
• Strong support helps pupils who need it to catch up in reading
• High expectations for behaviour create a calm, orderly environment
• Pupils attend regularly and effective support improves attendance
• SEND provision has been transformed, with early identification and effective training
• Personal development is nurtured through leadership opportunities, tolerance and well-being support
• Governors know the school well and support and challenge leaders effectively
• Staff value support for workload and well-being
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• The reading strategy is not fully embedded across the school
• Older pupils are not given enough opportunities to develop enjoyment of reading and appreciation of different authors
• Assessment checks are sometimes not effective in identifying and addressing gaps in pupils’ knowledge
• Some pupils with gaps in knowledge cannot build successfully on prior learning

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 Royton Hall Primary School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.0% 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, 0.9% of pupils at Royton Hall 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 Royton Hall Primary School had 20.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.1% 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, 10.5% of pupils at Royton Hall Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.5% 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 Royton Hall Primary School received £7,179 and spent £7,233 for each of its 318 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £153,000 (£482 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 Royton Hall Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Royton Hall Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was Royton Hall Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Royton Hall Primary School was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does Royton Hall Primary School have?

Royton Hall Primary School has 324 pupils on roll.

What age range does Royton Hall Primary School cover?

Royton Hall Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

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

Where is Royton Hall Primary School?

Royton Hall Primary School is at High Barn Street, Royton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL2 6RW.