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Vernon Park Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Community school
Peak Street, Stockport SK1 2NF · vernonpark.stockport.sch.uk · 0161 480 4378
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 39%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Stockport 66%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 312
- 88% of 355 places
- Local authority
- Stockport
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 26%
- First language not English
- 18.6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 29 families put the school first and 32 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 32 | 29 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 44 | 39 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 41 | 37 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 45 | 43 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 45 | 41 | 0.9 | 95% |
Results
In 2024/25, 39% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Stockport it was 66%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼39% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼103 | 106 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
| ▼101 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Vernon Park Primary School on 11 February 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 11 Feb 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Feb 2014
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Feb 2014Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Oct 2012Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
84% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (31 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 84%
- Replies
- 31
- 10% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 81% who raised concerns
based on the 23% who had a child bullied