St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

About St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School sits within Bury local authority, a borough with 64 primary schools where only two hold an Outstanding rating from Ofsted. The school itself is rated Good, placing it in solid company locally but behind the top three performers identified in the local landscape: Emmanuel Holcombe Church of England Primary School, Sunny Bank Primary School, and Chantlers Primary School. As a Roman Catholic voluntary academy, it serves a mixed-gender cohort from age three to eleven, with a nursery provision on site. The school is noticeably oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, it received 71 applications for 45 places, with 42 first-preference offers made from 45 first-preference applications. That oversubscription ratio of 1.58 suggests strong local demand, particularly among Catholic families in the area. The nearest Outstanding-rated primary is Yesoiday Hatorah Girls Academy, 4.3 kilometres away, so for most families in the parish, St Bernadette's is the most accessible faith-based option.

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