Crown Street Primary School

About Crown Street Primary School

Crown Street Primary School is a small state primary in Manchester that clearly commands strong local demand. For the 2025/26 intake, the school received 68 applications for just 29 places, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.34. That means more than two families applied for every available spot, and of those, 28 were first-preference applications — all of whom received an offer. While the school does not publish a parent recommendation percentage, the sheer weight of applications suggests a school that local families are actively choosing. With only 44 pupils on roll against a capacity of 234, the school is significantly under-enrolled in terms of its physical space, yet still oversubscribed for its planned admission number. This points to a deliberately small, intimate setting rather than a school struggling to fill places. Heleyna Thompson is the headteacher, and the school has no religious character, a nursery provision for three-year-olds, and a mixed intake with 18.2 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals.

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