Marsh Green Primary School

Community school·Primary school Wigan·WN5 0EF
Composite score
47.7
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#8,101
National rank
#1141
In North West
#63
In Wigan
Top 55%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
13%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
34 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.13
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
45
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620221.0320231.0020241.0320251.132026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Marsh Green Primary School yet. Wigan 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
392
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
59.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
19.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,564
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Marsh Green Primary School

Marsh Green Primary School is a primary school in Wigan, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 392 pupils aged 2 to 11 attend the school. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below 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 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Marsh Green Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 34 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 20.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 60% 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. Marsh Green 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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