Moston Fields Primary School

Community school·Primary school Manchester·M40 9GJ
Composite score
26.0
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#13,919
National rank
#2146
In North West
#129
In Manchester
Top 94%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
40%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
38 first choices, 38 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
89
any preference, for 38 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9420220.9320230.9420240.8720251.002026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Moston Fields Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
438
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
50.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
40.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,288
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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School overview

Moston Fields Primary School is a primary school serving Manchester, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 438 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 40% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 6.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Moston Fields Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 38 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 23.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Moston Fields Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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