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Alt Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Alt Lane, Oldham OL8 2EL · alt.theharmonytrust.org · 0161 260 0622
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2022
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 40%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Oldham 58%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Oldham Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 343
- 8 over 335 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 56.7%
- First language not English
- 50.4%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Oldham Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 37 families put the school first and 45 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 | 45 | 37 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 40 | 32 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 25 | 23 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 38 | 31 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 39 | 38 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 40% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 2% the higher standard. Across Oldham it was 58%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼40% | 62% | ||
| ▼2% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼99 | 106 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
| ▼101 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 3 November 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Alt Academy was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 2 Nov 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 105682), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Sept 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Nov 2013Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 105682)
What parents said
91% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (34 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 91%
- Replies
- 34
- 10% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 56% who raised concerns
based on the 38% who had a child bullied