Dowson Primary Academy

About Dowson Primary Academy

Dowson Primary Academy in Tameside holds a Good rating from Ofsted following its most recent inspection in 2022, with inspectors singling out personal development and behaviour and attitudes as Outstanding. The school’s core academic story, however, is best told through its Key Stage 2 results. In the 2023/24 academic year, 63% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — just above the Tameside local authority average of 62%. That places the school 29th out of 57 primary schools in the borough, sitting in the middle of the pack nationally at the 50th percentile. While the combined figure is solid, the breakdown shows some variation: 85% of pupils met the expected standard in maths, compared with 80% in both reading and writing. At the higher standard, 20% achieved greater depth in maths, 32% in reading and 12% in writing, though only 5% hit that higher bar across all three subjects.

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