Claremont Primary School

About Claremont Primary School

Claremont Primary School is a large state primary in Manchester, currently home to 603 pupils against a capacity of 682, meaning it operates with some spare room despite being significantly oversubscribed. For the 2025/26 intake, the school received 139 applications for 57 places, with all 57 first-preference applicants offered a spot — an oversubscription ratio of 2.44 to one, which signals strong local demand. The school serves a community with a high level of disadvantage: 64.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the national average and a figure that places it among the more challenged intakes in the borough. The school is non-denominational, with no religious character, and admits both boys and girls from ages 3 to 11, including nursery provision. Headteacher Anne Conboy leads a mixed-gender, state-funded primary that, given its intake profile, is clearly a central part of its local community in Manchester.

Academically, Claremont’s most recent Ofsted inspection in October 2023 rated the school Good across every category — overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision all scored 2 on the four-point scale. This represents a consistent performance: the previous inspection in 2013 also rated the school Good overall. At Key Stage 2 in the 2023/24 academic year, 38% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the Manchester local authority average of 57%. In individual subjects, 59% met the expected standard in reading, 52% in maths, and 67% in writing, with only 2% reaching the higher standard across all three. The school’s average scaled scores of 100 in both reading and maths are exactly in line with the national baseline. In the local authority rankings, Claremont sits 116th out of 122 primary schools, placing it in the bottom 50% nationally.

The school offers a solid range of facilities including a library, ICT suite, playing fields, sensory room, art studios, outdoor playground, forest school, music rooms, and a chapel. Sports provision covers swimming, rounders, football, netball, and cricket, while clubs include coding, chess, film club, and gardening. For families with children who have additional needs, Claremont’s SEND provisions are extensive, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties. The nearest Outstanding-rated primary is Holy Name Roman Catholic Primary School, 0.9 km away, which may be worth considering for families prioritising a higher Ofsted grade. Claremont is best suited to families who value a genuinely inclusive, well-resourced local school with strong pastoral support, and who are comfortable with its below-average academic outcomes relative to the Manchester average.

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