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Higher Lane Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Academy
Egerton Road, Whitefield, Manchester M45 7EX · higherlaneprimary.co.uk · 0161 766 2005
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Dec 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 62%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Bury 64%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Bury Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 491
- 71 over 420 places · 117%
- Local authority
- Bury
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 17.3%
- First language not English
- 12.6%
- 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: Bury Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 54 families put the school first and 59 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 | 59 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 66 | 68 | 1▲ | 94% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 65 | 54 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 66 | 80 | 1.2▲ | 79% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 66 | 67 | 1▲ | 91% |
Results
In 2024/25, 62% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 6% the higher standard. Across Bury it was 64%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ●62% | 62% | ||
| ●6% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●108 | 106 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 105302)
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Higher Lane Primary School on 3 December 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 3 Dec 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Needs attention |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Nov 2021
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2021Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Feb 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (69 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Positive
- 93%
- Replies
- 69
- 14% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 88% who raised concerns
based on 9 parents (13%) whose child was bullied
based on 18 parents (26%) with SEND