Greenfield Primary Academy

Greenfield Primary Academy has demonstrated a strong performance overall, achieving a 'Good' rating in all assessed areas, including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This marks the school's first inspection since becoming an academy, having transitioned from an inadequate predecessor school. Leaders have established a positive learning environment where pupils feel safe, enjoy learning, and are engaged in a wide variety of activities, including trips and visits that enhance their education. The curriculum, particularly in early reading, is ambitious and well-structured, helping pupils, including those with special educational needs, to achieve good outcomes.

Strengths

• High expectations set by leaders for all pupils
• Strong phonics knowledge and early reading skills
• Pupils achieve well across the curriculum
• Effective engagement with parents
• Robust safeguarding arrangements
• Pupils develop leadership skills through councils and initiatives
• Clear routines established that promote positive behaviour
• Supportive training for staff within the trust

Areas for Improvement

• Lack of clarity in some subjects regarding the small steps of knowledge needed
• Some teachers lack guidance to check pupil understanding effectively

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 Greenfield Primary Academy attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.5% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Greenfield Primary Academy 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 Greenfield Primary Academy had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 18.6% of pupils at Greenfield Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 12.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 23 pupils.

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 Greenfield Primary Academy received £8,919 and spent £9,571 for each of its 190 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £621,000 (-£3,279 per pupil).

Across all 17 schools of The Harmony Trust Ltd, income was £7,256 and spending £7,263 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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Greenfield Primary Academy is part of The Harmony Trust Ltd, which runs 17 schools. The nearest others:

• Alt Academy Oldham
• Greenhill Academy Oldham
• Richmond Academy Oldham
• Westwood Academy Oldham
• Northmoor Academy Oldham
• Spotland Primary Academy Rochdale
• Norden Primary Academy Rochdale
• Hackwood Primary Academy Derby
• Reigate Park Primary Academy Derby
• Carlyle Infant and Nursery Academy Derby

What is Greenfield Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Greenfield Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Greenfield Primary Academy was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Greenfield Primary Academy have?

Greenfield Primary Academy has 221 pupils on roll.

What age range does Greenfield Primary Academy cover?

Greenfield Primary Academy for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Greenfield Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 46% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Greenfield Primary Academy?

Greenfield Primary Academy is at Queen Street, Greenfield Primary Academy, Cheshire, Cheshire, SK14 1QD.