Mellor Primary School

Mellor Primary School is performing well, demonstrating strong achievements and a positive school culture. Leaders have implemented effective strategies to ensure that pupils, including those with special educational needs and disadvantaged backgrounds, achieve well across the subjects. The school has met safeguarding standards, creating a safe environment where pupils feel supported and valued. However, there are areas identified for improvement, particularly in early years provision and aspects of handwriting and mistake-based learning. The school's leadership is responsive, and notable steps are being taken to enhance the curriculum and teaching practices. Parents have a favorable view of the school, underscoring its strong community ties. While the overall performance is commendable, addressing the concerns noted in early years and encouraging teaching strategies that allow for learning from mistakes will be vital for ongoing improvements.

Strengths

• Leaders ensure that pupils achieve well across subjects.
• Pupils enjoy reading and demonstrate understanding.
• Strong focus on safeguarding creates a safe environment.
• Positive behavior and responsible attitudes among pupils.
• Teachers adapt their teaching to student needs effectively.
• Pupils benefit from a range of extracurricular activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent early years provision impacting learning.
• Some pupils lack fluency in letter formation.
• Opportunity for teachers to encourage learning from mistakes is not fully utilized.

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 Mellor Primary School attended 96.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 3.2% 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 Mellor 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 Mellor Primary School had 27.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.0% 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, 13.0% of pupils at Mellor Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.3% 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 2024–25 Mellor Primary School received £6,110 and spent £6,266 for each of its 228 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £106,000 (£464 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of The Honeycomb Education Trust, income was £4,969 and spending £4,965 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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Mellor Primary School is part of The Honeycomb Education Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• Bolshaw Primary School Cheadle

What is Mellor Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Mellor Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Mellor Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Mellor Primary School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Mellor Primary School have?

Mellor Primary School has 231 pupils on roll.

What age range does Mellor Primary School cover?

Mellor Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Mellor Primary School?

Mellor Primary School is at Knowle Road, Mellor, Stockport, Cheshire, SK6 5PL.