Irk Valley Community School

Community school·Primary school Manchester·M8 5XH
Composite score
29.9
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#13,379
National rank
#2040
In North West
#118
In Manchester
Top 90%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
46%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
32 first choices, 37 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
123
any preference, for 37 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9820221.0020231.0020240.9020250.862026

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

Every child who put Irk Valley Community 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
459
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
45.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
74.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
6.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
14.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,213
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Irk Valley Community School

Irk Valley Community School is a primary school in Manchester, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 459 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 46% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 12.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous 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 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Irk Valley Community School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 32 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 25.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 46% 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. Irk Valley Community 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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