Arbour Academy
Alternative provision school · Academy alternative provision converter · ages 11 to 16 · Mixed
Canterbury Gardens, 640 Eccles New Road, Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 5AG
- Pupils44
- Ages11 to 16
- Latest Ofsted3 Jun 2025
- FundingState-funded
Ofsted inspections
Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.
Graded inspection (no overall grade) · 3 Jun 2025
No overall grade: from September 2024 to November 2025 Ofsted gave sub-grades only (recorded as “Not judged”).
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Leadership and managementGood
- Safeguarding is effectiveYes
Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).
Schools with Serious Weaknesses Visit 1 · report published 20 Jul 2025
Ungraded inspection · 9 Oct 2019
This inspection was of a predecessor school (The Canterbury Centre), before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.
Outcome: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next. An ungraded inspection checks whether a school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection; it doesn’t give new grades.
Ungraded inspection · report published 6 Nov 2019
Read the full reports on Ofsted’s website (opens in a new tab) — they explain the reasons behind each grade.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.
Results
No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.
Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.
Pupils and attendance
- Pupils
- 44 (capacity 65)
26 girls, 18 boys - Eligible for free school meals
- 72.7% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)
Pupils with SEN support
Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
2024/25
Pupils with an EHC plan
An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.
2024/25
Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years
2024/25
First language not English
This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.
2024/25
Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.
About the school
- Type
- Academy alternative provision converter (Academies)
- Trust
- KINGS ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Kings Academy Trust
- Boys, girls or mixed
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Special needs catered for
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Opened
- 1 April 2023
- Local authority
- Salford
- Parliamentary constituency
- Salford
- URN
- 149590 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)
Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).
Admissions
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