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Kentmere Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Kentmere Avenue, Smallbridge, Rochdale OL12 9EE · kentmereacademy.co.uk · 01706 647533
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Outstanding
- Ungraded inspection · Jul 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 71%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Rochdale 58%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 353
- 8 over 345 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 40.2%
- First language not English
- 51.8%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Watergrove Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 79 families put the school first and 45 places were offered; 57% 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 | 79 | 1.8▲ | 57% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 44 | 55 | 1.3▲ | 78% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 45 | 56 | 1.2▲ | 80% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 45 | 53 | 1.2▲ | 85% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 43 | 53 | 1.2▲ | 79% |
Results
In 2024/25, 71% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 4% the higher standard. Across Rochdale it was 58%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲71% | 62% | ||
| ▼4% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●105 | 106 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 17 July 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Kentmere Primary Academy was: School remains Outstanding.
- Outcome
- Remains Outstanding
- Inspected
- 16 Jul 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Jan 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 133479), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jan 2018Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Sept 2013Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 133479)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (35 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 35
- 10% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 37% who had a child bullied