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Wood Fold Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Community school
Green Lane, Standish, Wigan WN6 0TS · woodfold.wigan.sch.uk · 01257 400271
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 78%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Wigan 66%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 425
- 8 over 417 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Wigan
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 11.5%
- First language not English
- 7.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 72 families put the school first and 86 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 | 86 | 72 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 74 | 67 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 65 | 1.1▲ | 86% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 51 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 56 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 78% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 22% the higher standard. Across Wigan it was 66%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲78% | 62% | ||
| ▲22% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●108 | 106 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
| ●107 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Wood Fold 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 | Outstanding |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Sept 2014
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Sept 2014Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Oct 2008Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (107 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Replies
- 107
- 26% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 73% who raised concerns
based on the 19% who had a child bullied