Clarendon Road Community Primary School

About Clarendon Road Community Primary School

Clarendon Road Community Primary School in Salford holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across its most recent inspections. The most recent graded inspection, in 2020, awarded Good across all five categories including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and early years provision. An ungraded inspection in 2025 confirmed that standards are being maintained. The most telling exam metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined: 60 per cent. That is very close to the Salford local authority average of 61 per cent, placing the school 33rd out of 65 primary schools in the borough. While this puts it in the bottom half of local schools, the picture is more nuanced when you look at individual subjects.

In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, reading and maths average scores both came in at 105, which is slightly above the national benchmark of 100. The school’s strongest subject is reading, where 80 per cent of pupils met the expected standard and 18 per cent reached the higher standard. In maths, 78 per cent met expectations and 24 per cent achieved the higher mark. Writing lags a little, with 76 per cent at expected and 11 per cent at higher. Nationally, the school ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the North West it sits just above the midpoint. There is no progress score data available, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points, but the attainment figures suggest a solid, if not exceptional, academic profile.

The school is oversubscribed: for 45 places in the 2025/26 intake, there were 133 applications, with 53 listing it as first preference and 42 of those receiving offers. That gives an oversubscription ratio of nearly 3:1, indicating strong local demand. Clarendon Road has a nursery provision for children from age three and offers a range of facilities including a library, playing fields, music rooms and a chapel. Sports include cricket, athletics, football and gymnastics, and clubs cover drama, book club and eco club. The school reports a broad range of SEND provisions, covering dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional mental health, speech and language needs, hearing impairment, physical disability and autistic spectrum disorder. Parent View responses from 81 families were largely positive: 85 per cent would recommend the school, and strong majorities agreed that children are happy, safe and doing well. This is a community primary that suits families looking for a well-regarded local school with consistent Ofsted outcomes and a wide net of support for additional needs.

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