St Thomas' Leesfield CofE Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Oldham·OL4 5AT
Composite score
50.3
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#7,148
National rank
#986
In North West
#26
In Oldham
Top 48%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
72%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
78%
36 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.24
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
76
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.42
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.7520230.8020240.8220251.242026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Thomas' Leesfield CofE Primary School yet. Oldham does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
208
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
39.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
23.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,921
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Thomas' Leesfield CofE Primary School at a glance

Located in Oldham, St Thomas' Leesfield CofE Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 208 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 72% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 7.0 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 around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 78% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (36 first choices for 29 places). Overall pupil absence was 5.9%. There are about 23.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% 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. St Thomas' Leesfield CofE 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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