St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Manchester, Rochdale·M24 1FL
Composite score
48.8
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National rank
#1084
In North West
#23
In Rochdale
Top 52%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
59%
% achieving higher RWM
9%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
67%
43 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.43
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
164
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.47
00.511.52
1 per place
0.9020221.3320231.4120240.9620251.432026

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

Rochdale does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
212
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
7.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,265
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale is a primary school serving Manchester, Rochdale, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 212 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 59% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with 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 around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 9% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 43 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 23.1 pupils per teacher. St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale 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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