Middleton Parish Church School
Primary school · Academy sponsor led · ages 3 to 11 · Mixed
Springfield Road, Middleton, Manchester, M24 5DL
- Pupils432
- Ages3 to 11
- Latest Ofsted29 Jan 2025
- FundingState-funded
Ofsted inspections
Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.
Graded inspection (no overall grade) · 29 Jan 2025
This inspection was of a predecessor school, before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.
Category of concern: Serious weaknesses. What this means.
No overall grade: from September 2024 to November 2025 Ofsted gave sub-grades only (recorded as “Not judged”).
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Leadership and managementInadequate
- Early years provisionGood
- Safeguarding is effectiveYes
Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).
S5 Inspection · report published 30 Apr 2025
Ungraded inspection · 31 Mar 2023
This inspection was of a predecessor school, 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 (Concerns) - 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 25 May 2023
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
- 432 (capacity 446)
213 girls, 219 boys - Eligible for free school meals
- 33.2% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)
Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.
About the school
- Type
- Academy sponsor led (Academies)
- Phase
- Primary
- Trust
- FORWARD AS ONE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Forward As One Church of England Multi Academy Trust
- Boys, girls or mixed
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Manchester
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Opened
- 1 November 2025
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Parliamentary constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North
- URN
- 152130 (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
For a place at the usual starting age you apply through your home council (where you live), even if the school is in another area — not to the school. You can usually name several schools in order of preference.
Apply for a primary place (GOV.UK)
How school admissions work: deadlines, oversubscription and appeals.