Light Oaks Infant School

Community school·Infant school Salford·M6 8LU

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Light Oaks Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

69 first choices, 78 places

First choices per place

0.89

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

122

any preference, for 78 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.05

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9520220.8620230.8620240.9320250.892026

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

Every child who put Light Oaks Infant 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 289
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

16.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

14.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

17.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

22.7%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,516

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Light Oaks Junior School Salford · 0.0 mi 45.2 St Luke's RC Primary School Salford · 0.5 mi 39.0 St John's CofE Primary School Manchester · 0.5 mi 47.4 Grosvenor Road Primary School Manchester · 0.7 mi 52.6 Summerville Primary School Salford · 0.8 mi 29.2 Clarendon Road Community Primary School Manchester · 0.8 mi 35.8 St Augustine's CofE Primary School Manchester · 1.0 mi 45.6 Monton Green Primary School Salford · 1.1 mi 65.7

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Light Oaks Infant School at a glance

Located in Salford, Light Oaks Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 289 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Light Oaks Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 69 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.0%. There are about 19.8 pupils per teacher. Light Oaks Infant 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.