Lower Kersal Community Primary School

School overview

Lower Kersal Community Primary School is a primary school serving Salford, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 249 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 53% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 6.0 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 101 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Lower Kersal Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 26 families who put it first were offered a place. The council's own allocation figures show the last child offered a place for 2025 lived 0.56 miles away in a straight line — that distance is not a fixed catchment and moves each year. Overall pupil absence was 6.1%. There are about 19.1 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. Lower Kersal Community 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.