Oasis Academy Limeside

Oasis Academy Limeside is currently evaluated as requiring improvement in overall effectiveness, highlighting a shift from its previous outstanding rating nine years ago. The school has experienced staffing turbulence and faces challenges in ensuring that all pupils, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), achieve their full potential. While there are positive developments, especially in reading, many pupils still struggle with fluency and accuracy, affecting their preparedness for subsequent educational stages. The management and curriculum have been reorganized, which aims to enhance educational quality and address gaps in pupil knowledge.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and well cared for.
• The school offers a variety of clubs, trips, and activities that enrich student experiences.
• Pupils have positive attitudes and behavior, showing respect towards each other and staff.
• The new reading curriculum is effectively improving early literacy skills.
• Pupils in early years showing rapid gains in reading.
• Strong efforts towards managing pupils’ behavior have resulted in reduced suspension rates.
• The trust provides effective additional support to the school's improvement efforts.

Areas for Improvement

• Teachers do not ensure that pupils secure important knowledge before moving to new learning.
• Support for pupils with SEND is inconsistent and not as effective as it could be.
• Some pupils have considerable gaps in knowledge that are not being identified or addressed quickly enough.

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 Oasis Academy Limeside attended 93.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.5% 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, 2.4% of pupils at Oasis Academy Limeside were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Oasis Academy Limeside had 26.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 21.1% 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, 16.6% of pupils at Oasis Academy Limeside were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% 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 2024–25 Oasis Academy Limeside received £7,873 and spent £8,120 for each of its 436 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £382,000 (£877 per pupil).

Across all 56 schools of Oasis Community Learning, income was £9,249 and spending £9,031 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Oldham · Oldham local authority: places and applications

Oasis Academy Limeside is part of Oasis Community Learning, which runs 57 schools. The nearest others:

• Oasis Academy Oldham Oldham
• Oasis Academy Broadoak Ashton-Under-Lyne
• Oasis Academy Leesbrook Oldham
• Oasis Academy Clarksfield Oldham
• Oasis Academy Harpur Mount Manchester
• Oasis Academy Temple Manchester
• Oasis Academy Aspinal Manchester
• Oasis Academy MediaCityUK Manchester
• Oasis Academy Lister Park Bradford
• Oasis Academy Watermead Sheffield

What is Oasis Academy Limeside's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Oasis Academy Limeside is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in June 2024.

When was Oasis Academy Limeside last inspected by Ofsted?

Oasis Academy Limeside was last inspected in June 2024.

How many pupils does Oasis Academy Limeside have?

Oasis Academy Limeside has 452 pupils on roll.

What age range does Oasis Academy Limeside cover?

Oasis Academy Limeside for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Oasis Academy Limeside's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 36% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Oasis Academy Limeside?

Oasis Academy Limeside is at Third Avenue, Limeside, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 3SB.